© 2005 Three Owls Bird Sanctuary The Three Owls Bird Sanctuary and Reserve was founded in 1962 when a young girl called Helen took a baby Sparrow to Mrs Eileen Watkinson. She reared this and the following week the little girl brought another "A friend for the first" Little did Mrs Watkinson realise, but from this small beginning would grow a Sanctuary which now has Subscribers world-wide. Mrs Watkinson receiving the MBE 1991 presented by the Lord Lieutenant of Manchester (Left) and the Mayoress of Rochdale (Right) These three baby blackbirds were successfully reared and are now flying free in the wild were they belong Back to previous page