I make not secret on my website of my great passion and love for owls, they are so beautiful to watch as they go about their lives. From the days when I was made to wear my knitted woolly hat my mum had made for me before I ventured out owls have always fascinated me.  I cannot put into words why I love this species of bird so much, I’ve grown up with them, consider them an integral part of my life.

Over the last four months there has been a great number of Short-eared Owls around the country, giving many people close encounters into their normally secret moorland lifestyles during the breeding season. Where there’s Short-eared Owls you often find Barn Owls share the same area and also many other raptors, none more so than Dee Estuary.

I have visited this area for many years and if you get lucky on your visit you can be treated to a bounty of raptors. The best days are at high tides where alot if not most of this reed bed and marshland can be covered with the approaching sea water. You can have some wonderful views of all these birds, but I have also been many times and seen very little. When things come together though its one of the best places to see all of these raptors in one given area.

In March’s issue of the Bird Watching magazine there are several pages of my images and wording describing this powerful event in nature’s calendar, one that often leaves me shocked and upset at things I witness, but at the same time I realise this is Mother Nature at hear best and worst all rolled into one. Its desribes one such day I visited this area during a high tide described in my words then even now recited brings back the memory of that day such was its impact on me.

If you want to see the article then click here, and my thoughts are expressed in the text and through the images printed in one of my favourite magazines, I hope you enjoy the article. Thank you to the guys at the Bird Watching magazine for doing such a great job on the article and layout.