Barn owl

Finally the sun has come out today and I have been able to get into the garden and to do some harvesting and to water the greenhouse.  Ironic though it seems, that had got very dry.  I have posted some photos of some of the produce (some doing well enough - broad beans, potatoes, beetroot and lettuce of course) on  my Welsh blog and some, like the courgettes and dwarf beans, have not been very happy.

But it is not just the plants that have felt the effect of the wet and cold weather that we have had for so long.  Last Saturday as I walked the dog on the common in a gap between the showers I saw a barn owl hunting.  As it was just around 2.30 in the afternoon, it must have been  desparate to be out hunting at this time in the summer.  The previous night (and I think the one before, too) it had rained very heavily most of the night, and so the owl would not have been able to hunt.  Whilst it was lovely to see it flying, I did not see it catch anything and could only hope that it had some success as perhaps it had young to feed