A Barn owl comes down a Portnahaven chimney

This Barn owl was an uninvited guest in a Portnahaven dining room last week where it spent some time before finally deciding to leave.  Like an unidentified member of the crow family that had also intruded a few days previously, it had come down the chimney. 
At least the owl had the decency to behave itself.  The crow felt the need to smash the place up, breaking a couple of rather nice decanters and knocking a number of bottles to the floor before eventually being ejected by the police.  In the middle of the night too.  No manners...
Thanks to Simon and Kat for the photo....

Owl Pellets - Martin Armstrong

Thanks to Martin for this shot of Barn owl pellets found, appropriately enough, in a barn on the road between Lossit and Octofad.  They are quite big lumps for a bird to regurgitate - but I guess Barn owls can swallow young rats whole so if big lumps can go down one way then big lumps can come back up the same way!  If you see what I mean...

The Barn Owl Trust

The Barn Owl Trust