This afternoon Bob, Meurig and I enjoyed watching a Short-eared Owl while nearby were 5 dark-bellied and 13 pale-bellied Brent Geese.
Bob had to go and Chris Bird arrived, just in time for us to watch 2 Short-eared Owls hunting quite close together. One must have caught a relatively large item of prey for instead of swallowing it whole it had to pluck and tear at it. Chris noticed a Merlin dash across the saltings upstream from us.