This is a really cheesy headline and right now I can’t think of a less embarrassing one – but we have just seen a short eared owl land not far away from us in the top corner of the second meadow and thats thoroughly exciting. We had binoculars and a camera with us and got lovely views of it through the binoculars but failed to get a photo. However, here is one from Google images that is pretty much exactly as we saw it:

That takes our meadow list to 36 species.