Tuesday, September 27, 2011

Back to reality...

I forgot to mention, on Saturday night at 11.30pm I popped out for the terriers last walk and activated the outside light on the Old School holiday cottage.

The glow lit up a Barn Owl hunting the Starling roost in our neighbours garden. The Starlings were flushing everywhere and the owl flew through our garden into the sycamore above the moth trap, where it gazed back looking at me like I'd ruined its evening....On our return, it flew out of the garden and along the field edge nicely lit by 125 watts of MV Bulb...

Not a regular sight to get one actually IN the garden.  Nice....

4 comments:

abbey meadows said...

Well done on the 400 Stew. I'll be 148 by the time I reach that landmark! Nice bird, I assume it will make its way South at some point.

Ragged Robin said...

Well done on the barn owl - what a great garden tick Stewart.

Congrats too on reaching the 400!

Stewart said...

Nige - Well, you keep yourself fit...

RR - Had a few Barn Owls in the garden, but it always a nice surprise..

Tim Sexton said...

And there's me getting excited over a Chaffinch in the garden this morning :)