Spotted lanternflies are back for the season.

DANVILLE, Va. – An injured owl rescued by a firefighter along the Dan River is nearly ready to fly again, thanks to the Southwest Virginia Wildlife Center. The barred owl will be released back into the wild on Saturday, near where it was found in Danville. The owl was found by a Danville firefighter hanging upside down entangled in some fishing line and injured its leg in the process. Wildlife center staff member Madison Burnette, who helped rehabilitate the owl, says it took nearly two months for it to heal. “In the end, the ends justify the means, when we get him out to where he belongs.”Burnette said the wildlife center planned to release the owl New Year’s Day, but weather pushed back their plans.

There was briefly another participant swooping into Wednesday night’s vice presidential debate. For several minutes, a fly landed in Vice President Mike Pence’s hair, not moving as he answered questions about racial injustice and whether justice has been done in the death of Breonna Taylor. Conversation about the fly briefly dominated corners of Twitter, where debate watchers discussed their distraction and inability to focus on Pence and California Sen. Kamala Harris' answers. Wednesday night’s intruder wasn’t the first to take center stage at an election-year debate. In 2016, a fly briefly landed between Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton’s eyes during a town hall-style debate with now-President Donald Trump.

CNN People are undoubtedly moving around more as vacation season heats up and patience for sheltering at home wears thin. Anyone contemplating a trip has probably asked: Is it safer to fly or drive during the pandemic? "When you drive, you have much greater control of your own environment and the people around you and so I would think it's safer to drive in the present time," Schaffner said. But Schaffner also said if he needed to travel across country, as CNN Travel reader James Armstrong did, he would fly. He also wasn't convinced that all the interactions it would take to lodge and feed his family on the cross-country trip would be any safer than flying.