Heroes Not Zombies

I live in a typical Charnetaise house –

Can you see those two little arch-shaped holes/windows up on the top left? Well, there’s been such a lot of hissing coming from there in recent nights, and a bit of research revealed that the noise is the sound of barn owl chicks (barn owls don’t hoot, they hiss!)

Today I thought I could just make them out when I stood under the mulberry tree, and with a lot of patience, a camera on full zoom maxed up to a 3200 ISO setting, I managed to get these photos –

and

Wow!

I mean – wow!

OK, not exactly nature photographer of the year material but WOW!

This is just the kind of thing which makes an ordinary day an extraordinary day!