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Video of a Colorado deputy coming across a curious, cute owl has gone viral after the sheriff’s office posted their endearing encounter on Twitter.

The young northern saw-whet owl stopped deputies in their tracks Thursday as they were driving by the Rainbow Lakes campground near the small town of Nederland, the Boulder County Sheriff’s Office said.

“After some curious head twisting (on both sides) it safely flew away,” the sheriff’s office wrote on Twitter, using the hashtag #DeputiesLoveBabyOwls.

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