LITTLE OWL
This is one of 7 owl species on Kefalonia and a firm favourite. Little owls and scops owls call in the olive trees around the cottage most nights, and I am never tired of listening to them. The little owl is the size of a thrush, but a lot stockier, with short round wings. They have yellow eyes, circled with black and white eyebrows. Their plumage is a dark brown with whitish spots above and creamy streaks below.
They can often be seen perching on low branches, walls and telegraph poles. They watch for beetles, worms, grasshoppers and young birds from their perch before swooping down to snatch their tea and swooping back up again. If disturbed, they bob their heads to try to work out the disturbance. Although I hear these wonderful owls nearly every night, I have yet to photograph them here, so the photos are from the little owls I watched in Spain.
