Little owl

[muddy]

Just landed in my garden
I have never seen one before
It's on the chimney

[klondike]

I've seen them at shows where there is a stall with a collection of owls but never one in the wild.

I have a big fake plastic owl atop my flagpole. Its job is to stop pigeons decreasing the efficiency of my solar gazebo. It seems to work. When I first installed the panels I had to give them a wash twice in three days. Only been one instance since and it was too small to have been a pigeon.