When the sun did come out I had to make the decision whether to drive the long way round to Aust Warth to look for the short eared owls. With the old Severn bridge closed for repairs a journey of 10-15 minutes becomes a trip of 30-35. Still it looked like the sun might hold so I went.
Sometimes they appear earlier in the afternoon, but today it was the usual 4pm. I was sitting in the car listening to the football (I'd been there about 90 mins), hanging out of the window, when I suddenly realised I was looking at an owl sitting on a log. I never saw it fly in - for all I know it had been resting up in the long grass. Anyway we were then treated to a show by 2 owls (a third was reported) in reasonable, but dying light. In order to get some closer views I cranked up the ISO and hoped.
A few shots below starting with an experiment in black and white, and there are more on the website.
