Gonzo. Silver Winner, Urban Birds. This image was taken in Transylvania in Romania, not far from one of my favorite Natura 2000 sites. Only rarely are there days when this protected area fails to deliver from a bird photography point of view. However, on such days I know I have a fall-back option—an abandoned building where little owls have nested for more than a decade. Last year, on one of these Plan B days, I arrived at the building following heavy rain and discovered that the little owl family had grown: three chicks had hatched a few weeks previously. To my relief, I was ‘welcomed’ by the whole family, and while four of them were drying their feathers on the roof, one of the chicks was under it, posing in an odd way and with what looked like an air of resignation. To my eyes, I could see a resemblance to Gonzo, the famous character from The Muppet Show.#