Sleeping Tawny
February 25th, 2008 at 3:37 pm (owls)
After taking my dad to the airport at 6am on Saturday morning, my fiancee and i went for a walk around Quarry Bank Mill. As you can imagine at about 7am on a saturday it was very quiet. We started following the path but eventually got to a path that took us straight to the airport road. At this point we stopped and decided we were too tired and hungry to walk that route, so we turned back.
Just as we turned round, i noticed a tree in the middle of the field with a large hole in the middle.I was originally thinking this would be am excellent place for a Little Owl, but instead there was a large Tawny Owl sleeping in the middle of the tree. It was an excellent view and we watched it for about 10 min. Although as it was sleeping, it wasn’t the most exciting bird to watch, but was a brilliant spot.
