Just now family groups of little owls are being seen including two chicks at the St Aidan's Nature Park, Leeds.
They often perch in a stack of railway sleepers supporting a giant coal dragline - a reminder of the site's past as an opencast coal mine- and where little owls have nested for many years. The nearby RSPB visitor centre includes the Little Owl Cafe in recognition of this. Of all the owls the little is perhaps the wisest because of its association with Athene, Greek goddess of wisdom.
There are now between 5,000 and 12,000 pairs of little owls in England, Wales and part of Scotland and they have succeeded in finding their own niche in our countryside. They prefer milder weather and a patchwork of lowland fields and hedgerows from which they can hunt, using a perch from which they can take large invertebrates such as earthworms and large beetles and small mammals.
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