Jeff says; Since meeting Ceri, almost a year ago now, I have definitely talked more bird. He has had me seeing and doing a load of stuff that I would not have done had we not met. Like, accompanying him to a ‘symposium’ on birds at an Oxford University, visit an art gallery in Milton Keynes to see an extraordinary exhibition of bird related work by the artist Marcus Coates and on Friday, a real treat, he took me and the family to a local (London) park to see these tawny owlets, now aged about seven weeks old. Joy.

Now Ceri has very generously suggested taking a lucky Caught by the River reader along to see the owlets before it’s too late and they have grown and flown. We talked about this yesterday and decided that a good thing to to do would be to offer it up as a competition prize. Before I give you the question there are a few things to point out;

1/ the birds are in west / central London. You make your own way to the meeting point.
2/ Ceri is available on either Thursday the 8th at 10am or Saturday the 10th at 10am.
3/ the prize is for ONE winner plus a winner’s mate.
4/ you need to be a registered CBTR member to be eligible.
5/ Ceri is a very nice man. not weird. not scary.

and the question Ceri asks is, “What bird was the 200th on my bird list?”

Send your answer to us at info@caughtbytheriver.net. If you’ve been keeping up with the ‘Bird Effect Diaries’ this shouldn’t be too difficult. We’ll keep the competition open until midnight on Tuesday. Fingers crossed.