Be sure to catch up on our around the clock coverage to get some supposition on the source of this superbly stained specimen during its strange sub-arctic sebatical!
I hope this was not taken as me giving a "use the search" Reddit type response. Just providing further context for anyone jumping into this story and to give somewhat of an answer as to what happened to the owl. I gave the same post on Blaze's post for anyone that found that one first.
We'll probably know exactly where and how it got spray painted safety orange as soon as people follow it back to it's summer location and see like an orange bridge or something.
Plot twist, owl was roosting in a barn filled with a farmer's stash of 1500 bags of Doritos, which attracted mice. The owl was just dipping into deliciousness, the zesty zing, the crunchy swing, kickstarting its crunch, the fiesta flavours, the Doritos savours...