Owls have settled near the traffic police building in Vitebsk

June 19, Vitebsk / Diana Kurilo - BELTA /. An owl with its owlets lives next to the administrative building of the traffic police department of the Vitebsk Regional Executive Committee's Internal Affairs Directorate, the head of the department, Sergei Motorenok, told a BELTA correspondent. Legends abound about the wisdom of owls. This owl, too, has confirmed its reputation as both intelligent and far-sighted. It has made its home in an abandoned magpie's nest on a very tall fir tree right opposite the windows of the traffic police chief, thereby ensuring high protection and security for itself and its young. Sergei Motorenok, an amateur and connoisseur of wildlife, treats his unusual neighbors with great sympathy, but his duties as head of the traffic police department do not allow him to observe the birds from the window for long. However, the fact that the owlets have already left the nest and are now testing various flight speeds around their home nest has not gone unnoticed. "No violations have been detected so far," he joked. Professional observation of the "police" owls has been undertaken by ornithologists from the biology department of Vitebsk State University named after P. Masherov. They have ringed the owl and its young. By the way, seeing owls in Vitebsk is not such a rarity. The BELTA correspondent also witnessed a forest dweller calmly sitting on a fir tree in the city center in the early evening. -0-