Heard a noise , that I thought was one of my cats , bumping into a window . Then I caught movement , out of the corner of my eye , and wondered how a cat had gotten onto a window sill some twelve feet above the floor . Then the place turned into Hogwarts . It was a young owl . He watched me while I turned on the lights in that room . I opened both the front and rear doors , but he was not enticed . Decided I needed a little help , so went across the street to my new neighbor's house , and asked one of the boys to help me . We tried to coax him onto one of the poles from the pool , but he just kept flying off . Jesus asked me for a box . I gave him a red tote , which he took upstairs and came back down very shortly with the owl inside , which we then took outside to release .