Short-eared owls

South Uist its one of the best places in the UK for shorties.  I could see half a dozen before breakfast most mornings, there being so many that their territories overlap.  This often brought them into conflict with each other or with the local hen harrier who’s much bigger territory overlapped those of quite a few owls.

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