Barn Owl: With the longer evenings and recent good weather I've been spending more time out at dusk on a few of the local sites close to home, hoping to count a few of the local barn owls.
It's always a special day when you have an encounter with a barn owl, they are magnificent birds. This individual was not shy and quartered right past me on two occasions before gliding off over the rough grassland.
As a schedule 1 breeding bird I'm always conscious about posting precise locations of barn owl in the breeding season, so forgive me for being vague in the title description.
