Let’s face it, who doesn’t dream of finding the perfect Owl pellet? All those exquisitely formed, but totally gross little rodent skulls that only a day or two previously were part of a living creature running around in the hedgerows and fields. Well, the thing is, I’ve been collecting, analysing and recording what I find in them for years. In fact, they were nearly always the mainstay of my little nature table displays when I was very young and still at primary school way back in the 1950s. As for the ones in the picture, I gathered them from beneath the nesting box I built myself and put up years ago in an old, tumbledown stone barn-type building just a couple of miles from where I live. It was a long time before a Barn Owl finally chose to occupy it, but it’s been the regular home of a pair of Barn Owls ever since.