Most people walk their dogs or perhaps even their cat but Sharon Carrington attracts more attention than most when she walks around Shrewsbury with her pets.

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Sharon, 44, can often be seen with one of her pet owls on her shoulder and sometimes another on her hand.

Known as the owl lady of Harlescott, she has eight owls as well as rescue birds, who live in an aviary at her home in Dunbar.

She enjoys showing them off to interested youngsters, who approach her to have a look as she gives the owls their daily walk.

And Sharon sometimes even takes the birds out with her dog Scamp, who is particularly fond of Tiga, a snowy owl.

Her newest bird is Holly, a female barn owl, who arrived four days ago. She will join Sharon’s display teams and visit schools.

Sharon said: “Holly is doing well and settling in. I do see owls around in the wild. Traffic is dangerous for them, especially for barn owls because they fly so low. They feed in hedge rows and they take off so low.

“I have had Tiga, my snowy owl, for about four years. I had rescue birds before that.”

She said she was unsure about why she particularly liked birds, but said she found them “really interesting”.

“I go into schools any time they want me. I am going into Harlescott Junior School with the local policing team next week,” she said.

“I do charity displays for the Barnabas Church Centre. I teach the children about birds of prey because they just don’t see them. The number of children that have never seen an owl is unreal.”

Sharon said when she first got her owls, she had to learn to look after them and is now looking after three rescue birds.

“My vet is excellent. He’s a falconer himself and he gives me a lot of help with the wild birds,” she added.

Sharon takes some of her birds flying but at the moment she said they were too heavy because of their winter coats.

But the rescue birds are not handled and are released when they are ready.