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Date	Report
Sunday 27th Oct 9am	Mr Whoo is safe and happy in his enclosure
9.30am	Winds have destroyed Mr Whoo's enclosure - Mr Whoo has gone!!
Mon 28th Nov - Fri 1st Oct	Big bird at Ynystawe park
Wed 30th Oct pm	Mr Whoo spotted several times in Clyne Gardens.
Fri 1st Nov am	Abergavenny - bug brown bird swooped across a road
pm	Our lost owl swoops across a neighbour's garden just down the road from his home at Clyne Farm Centre.
Fri 1st Nov pm	Strange noises heard in Hendrefoelan Woods, Swansea
10 pm	Sighting in Hendrefoelan Woods, Swansea
Sat 2nd Nov am	Big blue bird sighted at Green Close, Mayals.
2am	Flying low towards Clyne Gardens from Penlan Cottage/Clyne Farm direction.
am	Another big bird in tree at Sarn, Bridgend.
am	Owl spotted on roof of Porth Post Office
Sun 3rd Nov am	St Clears - Big bird on dual carriageway
pm	Large owl spotted in tree in Wrexham
11 pm	Owl heard near tower in Clyne Woods by Clyne halls porter Tony Shuttleworth
pm	Large owl seen on lamppost on Briton ferry Bridge
Mon 4th Nov am	Glosterland Village, Dudley, West Midlands. Far from home!
am	Possible sighting in Bishopston, Swansea
11.15am	Broughton, Devon
11.30am	Spotted in the top end of Clyne Gardens
4.45pm	Tom rings from Vancouver, Canada - wants to do an interview on CBC radio about the missing Mr Whoo!
5pm	Spotted again at the top end of Clyne Gardens
10pm	Another reported sighting in Briton Ferry
12am	Seen in Derwen Fawr, Swansea in a front garden
Tues 5th Nov 11am	In Clyne Gardens up a tree eating a small bird
12pm	In Sketty, Swansea, opposite Olchfa School, eating off a bird table in a back garden
Wed 6th Nov 2.30pm	Owl heared hooting in Blackpill, Swansea
7.30am	Spotted in Penclawdd, Gower
Friday 8th Nov pm	Earlswood roundabout near Skewen, sitting on a pole, watching the traffic!
Sunday 10th Nov 4.30pm	Mr Whoo is seen in Clyne Gardens, by the Gazebo this time.
pm	Saunders Way, Derwen Fawr, Swansea - The sound of him hooting is recorded on a mobile phone!
Tuesday 12th Nov pm	Big bird spied on Swansea Road, Waunarlydd, Swansea.
Friday 15th Nov pm	Lucy Road, Skewen, Swansea. Large bird spotted above garden. Witness thought a plane was coming down and rushed indoors! Reported by the Evening Post
Saturday 16th Nov am	Coed Gwilym Park, Clydach, spotted being bothered by some crows.
am	Whitland Bypass, Morriston, Swansea
Sunday 17th Nov am	Again seen in Coed Gwilym Park, Clydach.
	In Pontardawe, on a childs swing!!
Monday 18th Nov 2.15pm	A driver for Welsh Water sees a large owl is seen sitting on a pole at Capel Hendre near Ammanford.
Tuesday 19th Nov 10am	Seen flying over Pontardawe Dual carriageway.
Wednesday 20th Nov pm	Mr Whoo is spotted by Clyne Farm's owner, Geoff, sitting on a stone wall on Mayals Road watching the traffic. Very close to home!
Saturday 23rd Nov pm	Big bird of prey seen at Mountain Ash RFC
Tuesday 26th Nov pm	Owl sounds heared on Caebryn Avenue, Sketty, for the past two weeks. "Not like conventional owl sounds, it wasn't a twit twoo!!"
Monday 2nd Dec pm	Admirals Walk, Sketty (again, Sketty). Distinctive owl calls heard for the past week.
Thursday 5th Dec pm	On a tree near Clyne Castle in Clyne Gardens
Friday 13th Dec pm	On a tree in the garden of Clyne Lodge near the Woodman Inn
Saturday 14th Dec pm	On the roof of a house in Roman Bridge Close being worried by crows - seen to fly off in direction of Clyne Woods
Wednesday 18th Dec pm	Sitting on a bench in Clyne Gardens
Tuesday 24th December	Seen again behind the houses in Caebryn Avenue, Sketty
Monday 6th January pm	Several reports of sightings in Brynmill Park, seen high up in the trees.
Friday 17th January 9am	The wait is over Mr Whoo is found.. more details below...
Thank you to everyone who contacted us with sightings of our fugitive while he was out loose.

The Final Day...

Clyne Farm's owner Geoff Haden received a call from David Stares, the groundsman at Ashleigh Road Playing fields, about 2 miles from the Centre at 9am 17th January.

David had spotted Mr Whoo caught in one of the football nets on the playing fields. Geoff contacted Paul Llewellyn, a local conservation and wildlife expert, together with Dai (Paul's son) and a local RSPCA officer they met at the playing fields.

They were greeted with the sight of our missing owl tangled amongst the bottom corner of a football goal. Under the watchful eye of the RSPCA he was cut free and returned safely to Clyne Farm.

The next step is to build him a brand new (wind resistant!) enclosure to replace his old one. In the meantime all of us at Clyne are very pleased to see his safe return. He is lucky to have survived in the wild, especially as David at the playing fields had seen a fox there recently.

If you any information about or sightings of Mr Whoo in the past
please email or call us on (01792) 403333

Media Frenzy!

The Western Mail, announced the news of Mr Whoo's return on their website (18/01/03), and then ran the story in the newspaper itself (20/01/03) with a close up of our famous owl.

South Wales Evening Post (20/01/03) put the local's minds at rest by running an update on Mr Whoo's rescue, complete with a lovely picture of him resting back at the farm.

After the rescue Geoff Haden gave an exclusive live interview for Radio Wales on 18/01/03

The adventures of Mr Whoo have been highlighted in the BBC Website

This online cat lovers site ran the story too - Moggies

Articles have also appeared in the South Wales Evening Post (6/11/02) & (18/11/02) and the Wales on Sunday (3/11/02).

Geoff Haden the owner of the centre was interviewed exclusively for Radio Wales!

We've even had media interest from radio stations in Canada -
CBC British Columbia

Check out this article from a Dutch news site, just click on the English news (unless you speak Dutch!) and scroll down.

The Conserv@tion website which highlights daily wildlife stories from around the British Isles carried Mr Whoo's story on their front page.

The Ananova website brought the story across the globe