While I was working my watch early one morning, I got a call from a DPW employee asking to meet him on the soccer field. There, I met him and a great horned owl that had entagled itself in one of the soccer goal nets. I contacted a friend of mine who was both, an animal control officer and ASPCA official. He promptly responded to the scene where the netting was cut away from around the owl, though still entagled through it's wing. The owl was carefully placed into a small cage and taken to an ASPCA friendly veterinarian.
The remainder of the netting was removed from it's (broken) wing and the owl remained with the vet until fully healed. It was then taken to the mountains of West Milford, NJ and set free again into the wild.
Only one other time have I seen one in the wild and it was at night while I was on official duty.
I have certainly heard alot more of them than I have seen.