Owl Perches Above Memorial at Owsley County Courthouse Photo by Ellie Spence

Ellie Spence of Owsley County photographed an owl that perched itself looking over the memorial at the Owsley County Courthouse in Booneville, and the Booneville Sentinel posted the image online with a timestamp reading "Posted Friday, February 13, 2026 2:55 pm."

The Sentinel’s caption and credit appear on the image exactly as published: "Photo by Ellie Spence." The page also includes the fuller caption line verbatim: "Ellie Spence of Owsley County took a photo of this owl that perched itself looking over the memorial at the Owsley County Courthouse."

The item appears under the headline "Owl spotted being perched at Court House" and the posted photograph is identified in the page fragments as Image 3. The website layout around the item shows standard local-news sections and a weather snippet reading "45 ° Mostly Cloudy Forecast." The Sentinel page lists publisher contact information as "PO Box 129 Booneville, KY 41314."

Readers looking for related local coverage will find this photo placed alongside other community items on the same page, including the headlines "STIVERS’S SENATE BILL 6 PROPOSES $150 MILLION" and "County Road Requests at Fiscal Court Meeting." The site navigation visible on the page includes News, Sports, Obituaries, Opinion, E-edition, and Subscribe links, indicating the photograph ran on the Sentinel’s online local-news page rather than as an isolated social post.

Social and distribution icons next to the item are shown as placeholders for Facebook, X (formerly Twitter), BlueSky, LinkedIn, Email, and Print. At the time the page fragments were captured, the item carried the site notice "No comments on this item Please log in to comment by clicking here" and showed no public comments beneath the photo.

The page fragments also include two other date lines: "Booneville Sentinel - February 12, 2026" and "Monday, February 16, 2026," which appear elsewhere on the page as additional metadata or navigation items. The posted timestamp for the photo item itself is the explicit line "Posted Friday, February 13, 2026 2:55 pm."

The photograph as published is available on the Booneville Sentinel site and carries the image credit required by the paper. The Sentinel’s mailing contact is listed as PO Box 129, Booneville, KY 41314 for any inquiries about publication or reuse of the photograph.