Cuckoo and short-eared owls

It's been a while seen my last post but I've had all sorts goin on, hols (Spain, more on that in a later post), work, a laptop that died etc.

 Anyway pretty quite time of the year around Ashbourne so in recent weeks I haven't been out and about on the patch much but there was a couple of welcome visitors, namely a cuckoo near Kilbride and a couple of short-eared owls which I only had for about 10 minutes just off the N3 at Bracetown.