On a wing and a glass: Meet the tiny owl chicks being fed at the dinner table
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He said: "Rather than holding them and gripping them, it gives them space, and the wine glass supports them."

Mr Hedges uses a tiny pair of tweezers to give the birds little pieces of chopped-up meat.

The cotton wool in the glasses stops them from slipping and props the smaller ones up so their heads can reach above the brim of the glass.

These two chicks were born less than a week ago and Mr Hedges said they were being reared for flying and were taken away from their mother to tame them.

He said: "You can't have parent-reared owls.

"It's illegal to put a barn owl back into the wild and if you leave them with their parents, they can't be handled."

In five weeks time, the bald babies will turn white and downy, and at 10 weeks old, they will be fully grown and ready to fly the nest ... or wine glass.
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