Tuesday 14 December 2010

Short-eared Owl

4pm this afternoon I saw a short eared owl hunting at the north end of Cors Caron. Walking down the track from Ystrad Meurig and 100 yards past the river when the bird came from the left of the track towards the small stone ruins. It flew back north over the river and then I lost it as it dropped in to the grass. I walked back up over the Teifi and stood waiting for a few minutes. A flock of crows flew noisily over. The owl came out of the grass and up to the crows, called a few times then flew back over my head and off towards Tregaron on the left side of the track again. It's exactly the place I saw one earlier this year in Jan/Feb

Andre Marsh