Post by Chris Mullins on Mar 14, 2005 4:42:00 GMT
Sunday 13th March 2005 midday I recieved a report via the phone from a lady that said she'd had seen a rather large Owl-like bird perched on a roof areial the friday just gone around midday in my home town, it apparently created quite a crowd of onlookers, as it was bric-a-brac at the towns market.
I asked her to decribe the raptor, "oo' it was bigger than a cat, about 2'ft tall at least" .... and did you notice any ears? "oh' yes" she replied "it had ears, that's what made me think at first it was large cat, wondered how it got up there" ...... sounds like an Eagle Owl to me I said, "yes... that's the gentleman said that stood next to me, it's an Eagle Owl" ... and when was this again? .... "Friday she said, around midday" ... right thank you ... I noted everything down including name and tel number etc .... but decided there was no point in going over there because if it had been seen on friday it would've flown off by now, so thought I'll ring the local papers on monday, well I was so busy on monday I forgot to ring them but tuesday the paper rang me regards a spider that had been found on a S.S.S.I Site of Special Scientific Interest, they told me the name of it, but had very little info to go on, Sh*t, I said, I forgot to mention I recieved a report regards an Eagle Owl in our town centre last friday around midday, I continued to tell the rather exited reported on the oter end of the phone all about it, along with what knowledge I had regards them, finally asking him to include my tel number and web address, "Wow thanks Chris," he said, "I'll get this in the paper for thurday afternoon," great I said, it's nice when you have something like this happen in your home town.
Well thursday afternoon arrived and the phone was busy all day, but.......... the first called was a local roofing contractors which said, "About the Owl in the paper" ......yes I said, pen in hand ready to take down the reportees statment ..... "it's a plastic one" he said, "there's actually two up there, we placed them up there about six months ago, to scare the pigoens off"..... my heart sank like a brick........and most of the calls that day said rougly the same thing, what an idiot I felt, it wouldn't have been so bad if it was a remote corner of Scotland or somewhere, but my home town.......... I was gutted and truly felt like a, t-wit-too.
Chris
I asked her to decribe the raptor, "oo' it was bigger than a cat, about 2'ft tall at least" .... and did you notice any ears? "oh' yes" she replied "it had ears, that's what made me think at first it was large cat, wondered how it got up there" ...... sounds like an Eagle Owl to me I said, "yes... that's the gentleman said that stood next to me, it's an Eagle Owl" ... and when was this again? .... "Friday she said, around midday" ... right thank you ... I noted everything down including name and tel number etc .... but decided there was no point in going over there because if it had been seen on friday it would've flown off by now, so thought I'll ring the local papers on monday, well I was so busy on monday I forgot to ring them but tuesday the paper rang me regards a spider that had been found on a S.S.S.I Site of Special Scientific Interest, they told me the name of it, but had very little info to go on, Sh*t, I said, I forgot to mention I recieved a report regards an Eagle Owl in our town centre last friday around midday, I continued to tell the rather exited reported on the oter end of the phone all about it, along with what knowledge I had regards them, finally asking him to include my tel number and web address, "Wow thanks Chris," he said, "I'll get this in the paper for thurday afternoon," great I said, it's nice when you have something like this happen in your home town.
Well thursday afternoon arrived and the phone was busy all day, but.......... the first called was a local roofing contractors which said, "About the Owl in the paper" ......yes I said, pen in hand ready to take down the reportees statment ..... "it's a plastic one" he said, "there's actually two up there, we placed them up there about six months ago, to scare the pigoens off"..... my heart sank like a brick........and most of the calls that day said rougly the same thing, what an idiot I felt, it wouldn't have been so bad if it was a remote corner of Scotland or somewhere, but my home town.......... I was gutted and truly felt like a, t-wit-too.
Chris
