(InvestigateTV) - A licensed bird rehabilitator in Vermont has spent more than four decades healing injured birds, driven by a childhood memory that shaped his life's work."I think our kids grew up thinking every kitchen has an owl," Fred Homer said.

There's Jasper, the crow, who didn't enjoy this reporter's company.

And then there's Stella, the blind-in-one-eye Barred owl, who has been a fixture in Fred Homer's kitchen for years.