Branton Ponds 10th December

A late afternoon walk around the ponds with the dog saw us almost back to the village with very little seen,suddenly out of the long grass flew a BarnOwl,for the next 5 minutes it proceeded to flit along the edge of the trees in front of us.It finally dropped down out of sight behind an earth mound,at this point we went into stealth mode,not easy when attached to an over eager Labrador,when within 3 metres of the bird it suddenly eyeballed us from behind a tussock and then took off back in the direction it had come from.