April 2026

But the butterflies came first. They were the reason we were there.

A chance encounter with Matthew and the owls of Jambs Owls at Hall Place became an afternoon that changed everything we thought we knew about these extraordinary birds - and left us with questions we are still sitting with.

I came back. Regular readers will know this spot. It's the same pond, the same stretch of bank, the same pair of Eurasian Coots I've been watching and writing about since 2024.

They appear on what is dead or dying, and they are the mechanism by which death becomes life again.