James had been a wildlife photographer for fifteen years when he found the nest. He was not looking for anything specific. He was cutting through the property to reach a field on the other side. He stopped because something in the quality of the light through the broken glass panels caught his attention.
The barn owl had established her nest in the rafters of a disused greenhouse on farmland in Shropshire, England — an old structure with half its glass panels gone, open to the weather in a way that had, somehow, suited her.
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