Cold, dry and sunny, NW 2 - It doesn`t matter how long you`ve birding for (in my case its over 60 years!) owls are one family of birds that are hard to ignore. This week I`ve connected with four species locally including, and probably the easiest to see, Little Owls, at Hammonds Corner and Lydd, plus a stunning close Barn Owl yesterday afternoon quartering the field by the entrance to Lydd airport. `Eared` owls are always a bit more tricky but yesterday on our Ted walk through the trapping area we had obscured views of a roosting Long-eared Owl, while this morning a distant Short-eared Owl hunted the shingle ridges on the desert at the back of Tower Pits towards the airport; I often wonder how many we miss, particularly the former due to its largely nocturnal habits.
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