Chris Bird has been watching the Llyn Eiddwen - Llyn Fanod area for many years and he was obviously delighted when he rang me about half an hour ago to say he was watching a beautiful Short-eared Owl perched on a fence post in a boggy area of rough grassland between the two lakes.
The bird then got up to hunt round the area.
Earlier he had a male Hen Harrier in the same area after a late Wheatear at Llyn Eiddwen.