Owls

With all that baring flecks and tail it looks like a female. Too early to have young but look for taking food back from april on.

This owl’s partner was sitting in a tree nearby and did look a lot less speckled and a lot more grumpy. But looking back over photos I have taken over the last few years, I do wonder whether I have been watching more than a pair.

Lots of owlery yesterday, all a bit distant but still lovely to watch the hunt. Some crows came to give it a bit of grief.

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More from today!

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These are ace.

Lovely a owls.

Love them all but the second one is top notch.

Get them sent into spring watch or suttin.

Great idea, but they're a bugger to package are owls.

Use a large a owlnvelope.

'Dear Mr Attenborough, I have been doing owls for GCSE conservation studies, what is this one?'.

“Dead”

That reminds me about the challenge of identifying whether the fish you’ve caught is a vendace or a schelly or a houting - the Freshwater Biological Association (I think) had a postal service so you could send the fish to them in the post and they would tell you what it was. They provided detailed instructions on how to wrap the fish before dropping it in a letterbox.

Had never heard of any of those, (not a fisherperson).
This suggests it was extremely unlikely a vendace had been caught.

Time for a owl revival. This one flew towards me as I wandered back from the river tonight. It was dark.

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Here's a (terrible, I know 😬) picture I took last year of a Tawny Frogmouth perched in a tree in my client's garden. I think it's quite a young one, beautiful animals. I think it qualifies as a owl, fight me. 🙃

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Owl with vole

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Good catch, all ways round

Superb

around 4pm yesterday afternoon spent 10 mins watching a owl ( similar to the one above colour wise ) hunting a field. circles and a couple of swoops to the ground, nothing evident when it took off again after approx 10 seconds. eventually ended with it swooping and staying in the deep grass. i guess it caught something and remained on the ground to eat it. no young i guess as it didn't take the prey away to feed a brood

was very surprised when i initially saw it. magical to see it just going about it's day hunting. it hasn't been too rainy at night recently so i wonder why it was out so early hunting ?

Barn owl again. It has been so wet lately that I suspect they may feel an urge to hunt whenever they find it’s not raining

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... an vole

Oops, sorry about that sir!

An vole meets a owl and becomes supper

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I'm beginning to think you live at a owl sanctuary.