'ear me now

A local famer saw what was most probably a Short-eared Owl while working on Sunday, to the east of Kelk village.

It was 'big, brown above, pale underneath, long-winged and flew quite like an owl' (my para-phrasing).

Although not sure what it was he sees the commoner three owls regularly so I think SEO must be the runaway candidate. Oh, it wasn't a Buzzard either, I thought of that :)

Although moderately frequent along the Humber and apparently also in the dry valleys of the Wolds, they're very hard to come by in the rest of our region.

I'm green with envy - very much a bird I'd like to see again locally as my last one at Kelk was in the mid '90s!