Simon and Karen Spavin

Monday, March 16, 2026

More Short Eared Owl pics

Four short-eared owls on this afternoons walk. What a fantastic afternoon !

Short Eared Owls and a Red Kite

We were on one of our favourite afternoon walks when we saw a raptor approaching. We usually see marsh harrier on this walk so this red kite was a very welcome surprise. We have never see one here before so a double bonus.

And then Simon says 'whats that quartering that field'? Only a flipping short eared owl....and then another arrived and another and one sat on a post. What a good late afternoon walk.....red kite and 4 short eared owls ! Brilliant !

This one had a right old tussle with a local crow

Straight into the sun but an owl on a post nonetheless

Just love the colour of the sky in these two pics x

A fantastic afternoon all round

A few bits and bobs

Should you really have to do this to keep warm ? Here we both are, late 60's, worked all our lives and now cannot afford to put the heating on. Simon cuts wood a couple of times a week and he has kept us all warm this winter, Our stove is lit first thing and gets the house toasty, the room usually over 70 degrees in the evening. All the wood is free from our son (joiner) or a very kind neighbour who we trade wood for veg in the summer !

Wild white violets just flowering

Tomato and pepper plants coming on nicely in the greenhouse, they are now double that size

Snowdrops from earlier in the spring

About 30 buckets of potatoes at the bottom of the garden, that are growing ! Can't wait to eat them with lurpak and salt ! There is a full bed of them aswell......we won't go hungry !

Pixi cat spark out on my knee

Keeping guard in the sun

Simon loves to grow ornamental, specialist daffodils which we have in the house each year in spring. I have had a good 20 pots of them dotted around the house. They might look beautiful but some are very heavily scented, not good for the old hay fever ! But they do look stunning.