You will be able to guess what "tylluan" means I expect. And "wen" = "gwen" = white. And I've told you about "wedi marw" before. This morning I was walking (v.slowly) "The Shredder" along the estuary embankment in the searing heat ...when I found a dead Barn Owl in the grass at the edge of the marsh. . I'm fairly sure it must be the one that me and other local birders have been seeing sporadically. Most of it was reasonably intact, there were a few clumps of detached feathers scattered around , but its head was missing. Although I'm a fairly unsentimental old Hector, I felt very sad. If it had eggs/young, that's probably the end of them too. I didn't have my proper, but dinky, camera with me so I used the crappy duff one on my mobile phone. Astonishingly, they've come out quite well. Even more astonishingly, I have just now found out how I can get them off the phone and onto the computer... well, obviously I have. That means I can get the others ones off there too. I shall put them on this when I've done it. A whole new world of cacky snaps has opened up in the mini-birding household ! Plus, on the brighter side, there were 2 Stock Doves on the edge of the Flooded Field. They've always been a good bird to get around here, but they've got much scarcer over the last few years, so I was v. chuffed to see them. [ If all goes well, some more snaps will appear eventually, in the fullness of time etc.] Yes, it went well.... look at those claws and imagine all the rodents they have squidged.
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