Our big-eyed visitor arose from the ashes

Strange sounds were coming from the area of the wood burning stove.

Yet when we investigated we never saw anything. We had heard strange sounds for a few days.

We thought it was coming from inside the stove and reckoned it could be vermin of some sort!

Eventually I set up a video recorder and waited. After 10 minutes we heard noises but when we entered the sitting room there was nothing in the stove.

The video said otherwise.

The creature hid in the top plate covering the chimney and despite shining a torch into the stove we could see nothing.

Now we saw a lovely owl come into view in the stove (see below).

The Little Owl (its official name) must have fallen down the chimney.

Leaving the doors of the stove open the Little Owl flew onto the curtain rail of the sitting room and then we managed to shoo it into the dining room and then it flew through the dining room doors into the garden.

Poor little thing hadn’t eaten for days. I hope it is now alright.

BRUCE ADAMS Cox Green Lane

Maidenhead

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