Exultant!

Day 116 #365DaysWild 

Barn owl! 

In the monochrome morning fields on my left. Low. Then moth-like fluttering in the hedge. Right in front of me..

I’m exultant! My chest expanding ..

Only nature reaches these parts in us.

Juvenile barn owl ringed on 
New Farm during licensed ringing

Serendipitous really as I’m currently reading the excellent ‘Owl Sense’ by Miriam Darlington - and just on her barn owl chapter…

On the same day sparrowhawk. kestrel and red kite in the garden.. 

I’ve sunk wooden posts into Jill’s prairie beds as perching posts for visiting hunters…