Little Owls on the A10, near Ely, Cambridgeshire, 03/07/2008

An evening drive up to Norfolk & as dusk settled on the outskirts of Ely, amongst mixed agricultural & scattered wood land, a small, plump bird alert & perched on the top of roadside tree was spotted which seemed immediately to be an owl. I swung the car back round & parked up in time to see it fly over the road & into some trees on the other side of the road, where another could be seen again perched on top of an even higher tree. The flight was distinctive with rounded wings & quite a small bird which identified Little Owl rather than the much larger & more arboreal tawny owl. I have seen a little owl on a stretch of the A10 before perched on a sign, yellow eyes prominent so I'll be keeping up my watchfulness since then after this latest sighting.