August 2023
28.08.23 : Evening walk in Parkside, Cleator Moor, Cumbria
28.08.23 : Evening walk around the fields tonight, I almost didn’t bother as it was threatening rain and cloud, but I’m so glad I did !
First I distrubed a flock of Linnets, first roosting in a Hawthorn tree and then the moved onto the barb wire fence. I moved so that I could get a better position and stumbled upon two Meadow Pippets on the same fence. Walking through the fields I spotted a Hare running into the distance and so I headed to another field that I knew it would end up in, and as I approached caught a glimpse of a white bird gliding across the field at a few feet, then it was gone, that could only be one thing , a Barn Owl.
I’ve heard the Barn Owls here for nearly 4 years but never caught sight of one apart from on a night camera, so excited I stalked through the fields looking for where it had landed and with luck on my side I found it perched on a fence post, before gliding off to an old tree out of sight. Only a fleeting glimpse but I know where it is now and will attempt to get some more pictures soon.
What I great evening stroll !
