Williamson's Weekly Nature Notes
THE barn owl used to be the commonest owl in the county.
That was in 1891 and was the opinion of William Borrer, descendant of the famous botanist William Borrer of Henfield.
By 1938, John Walpole-Bond agreed that it may have been so once, but not now. Seventy years on, the idea of barn owls being as numerous as tawny owls is a distant dream. About 100 pairs of barn owls live in East and West Sussex.
For the full feature, see the West Sussex Gazette issue dated September 24