Four Membership Development Officers (MDO's) from the Eastern England Regional Office (EERO) visited both Langford Lowfields and Beckingham Marshes yesterday, as part of a fact-finding mission. I suggested that, while they were at Beckingham, they should have a look at the images of the pair of barn owls that can be seen on the screen at The Old Willow Works at the moment.
Well, they couldn't have timed it better as one of the seven eggs that the females has been incubating, decided to hatch out in front of them!
I manned a stall (alongside volunteer Chris duFeu) sited directly underneath the screen last Saturday at the Beckigham and Saundy History group's open day. The owls certainly helped in drwing people over to us and thet was before two owls had become three.
Chris attended a meeting in the same room last night and decided to turn the screen on for the other attendees to look at too. He said that for some reason, everybody seemed to be most distracted throughout!
The above image (just about) shows the Willow Works barn owls on a screen behind our stand.