Twas the week before Christmas, and perched on the tree was an unexpected visitor as majestic as can be! At a home in Virginia, a barred owl used a chimney to enter a house and then decided that he would make a better Christmas tree topper than the star the family had on the tree. He knocked it off and made himself at home on his new perch. A police officer answered the family’s call and gently captured their new feathered friend and safely released it back into the wild.