the owl joins the kookaburras who feast on the skinks and handouts from She Who Must Be Obeyed, the magpies - after more hand outs and also earning their keep by keeping down the nasties and not to forget the magpie butchr birds - we've got an agreement, they get a free meal each day so long as they don't attack the finches - seems to work so far.

they also make a terrible screaching noise at times - they're also called screaming woman owl/bird - I couldn't find an mp3 of that though