Short & Sweet.

No new sites tonight, I just didn't have enough time to go out searching in between finishing work and getting back to watch the footie, therefore its going to be a quick post.

So I made the most of what little time I had and revisited site 125 which was located late last Sunday night. I was hoping the juveniles located would still be hanging around and they would relinquish some photo opportunities?

After a bit of searching I located the first bird in the very same bush it was in on Sunday, a little distant but close enough to confirm without doubt it to be a juvenile.

Juvenile No 1

Whilst I was getting some images a second bird was heard, it was located almost immediately as it was only in the next tree! Without even having to manoeuvre the landrover I was able to get some images of that bird too.

Juvenile No 2

Then to my delight both birds sat together for an instant.........how cute!

An easy find!!!

Its getting ridiculous, almost every time I have been out owling recently I am finding new sites! Yes it is highly probable it is the juveniles moving away from their natal sites looking to set up their own territories, but never the less they are all still in areas where I have never seen Little Owls before! In my experience the juveniles don't move too far away so in the future the adults and the breeding sites shouldn't be too difficult to locate, with a bit of luck that is!

Last night was no exception to recent events, a nice leisurely walk along the local canal at Kilby Bridge in an area that I have no Little Owl territories..... until last night that is! At around 7.30pm the light was starting to go, as I'd walked a good mile from the car I decided I'd gone far enough and about turned for the return journey.  Then totally out of the blue I thought I heard a single Little Owl call? I couldn't be positive, maybe it was a figment of the imagination.... or just wishful thinking!!

Then I heard it again, and again, there was two of them, they where calling to each other along a hedgerow a 100 metres or so into a field from where I stood. After what seemed an aged I finally located one of them sitting high up in a hawthorn bush, sadly it got too dark to locate the second bird but what a result, new site No 125!