Farmer celebrates after rare barn owls return to his land to raise brood

Farmer David Sandford and his late wife Alison with their first chicks in 2019 (Ulster Wildlife/PA)

A farmer is celebrating after a pair of barn owls returned to his land to raise their brood.

It comes a decade after David Sandford first noticed a barn owl as he walked across his fields in Strangford in County Down and started working with Ulster Wildlife to help with conservationist work.