Scops Owl - 1894

Scops giu

Accidental visitor ; very rare. Only one instance of its occurrence. A beautiful specimen was caught by a labouring man near Pembroke in the spring of 1868. He was trimming a hedge at the time when it fluttered out from the bottom. Mr. Dix saw it in Mr. Tracy's shop.

Mathew M.A. 1894, Birds of Pembrokeshire and it's Islands