ONE of the "most-loved" breeds of the owl was spotted in daylight in a Worcestershire village. The barn owl, a bird of prey categorised by its heart-shaped head, was spotted in the middle of the day ...

He added that “the pigmentation is not very symmetrical and appears on the parts of a normal snowy owl that are white ... all up on the front of her face and head and back,” she said.

It was a snowy owl with a bright orange pattern on what should have been white feathers with dark bars. The amateur wildlife photographer covered hundreds of miles through the rural countryside in ...