Christine's walking & birds blog

On an overcast day with a slight drizzle in the air, an unexpected short-eared owl was just the thing to brighten up our walk.

Looking it up in BWP I found that the owl could already be breeding, so I won't mention the location. I feel a bit guilty now about taking the picture, but the camera was on full zoom and the photo has been cropped; the owl was at least 200 metres away. Something of the pleasure in seeing short-eared owls is taken away by the knowledge that there are others who would rather be looking at them down the barrel of a gun.