Aug 6, 2019: Little Owl

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A Little Owl is little, only about seven inches tall, so it's a battle to pull this worm from the ground to feed her chicks.


Andy Rouse photo

So with three chicks back at the nest, this normally nocturnal Little Owl made a daytime outing to rustle up dinner – but at just 7in tall, she faced something of a fight to get it home. She spent several minutes unsuccessfully wrestling an earthworm from a field near Cardiff. Eventually, however, her hard work was rewarded and she whisked the unfortunate creature home to her chicks, who were nesting in a nearby dry stone wall.

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