An interesting job for The Daily Express last week-as part of their 'Crusader Campaign' the newspaper sorted out the phone problems being experienced by Jacqui and Andy Meads who run the 'Safewings Bird Sanctuary'.
Being unavailable to take calls from people with sick or injured animals and birds was obviously not good news, but fortunately everything is working again now.


The owl chick is a Tawny Owl. At one point I got to hold it, which would normally be a thrill except that I was terrified of it dropping a load on me or taking my eye out Eric Hosking-style,(he was a famous wildlife photographer who lost his left eye when attacked by a Tawny Owl defending it's nest).
In a continuation of my 'Deja vu' post, I discovered that I had photographed Jacqui before-back in the 1980's when she was a
wing walker with the Barnstormers Flying Circus. She still has the black and white photograph I took of her waving from the top wing of a Tiger Moth aircraft.