You looking at me? Owl that knows how to turn heads

IT’S said that if you don’t like the way things are, try looking at the world another way.

And this short-eared owl, pictured, seemed to take the advice to heart – turning its entire gaze upside down.

Photographer Alain Balthazard, 49, who captured the head-turning shot, said the birds can pivot their heads up to 270 degrees in a display of surprise and curiosity.

He added: ‘It’s always amazing to observe.’ The bendy birds breed primarily in the coastal marshes of England and Scotland, but this particular specimen was snapped in north-eastern France.