Owling

A quick post-work call-in at Hawton Works Grassland produced a single Short-eared Owl - I've been meaning to go and see these all winter, so I'm glad I hadn't left it too late! Always cracking birds.

A digi-binned SEO

What a SEO actually looks like (from 2012)

It was also interesting too see that the area which was ploughed and covered in green waste at the end of 2012, whilst still sparsely vegetated, has some huge patches of creeping cinquefoil on it now... maybe ideal Grizzled Skipper habitat..?

Loads of cinquefoil