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Birds, Insects & Bats in flight (outdoors) Page 71
Image Taken on 31 Dec 2019
at 18:37 Image of day on 27 Jan 2020
A couple of hours after dark this Tawny Owl makes two visits to the post, and
a couple of hours later flies by the post without landing.
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Image Taken on 19 Jun 2024
at 03:11 Image of day on 14 Jul 2024
3 hours later what looks like the same Owl makes another of his three landings on the
meadow post in the same night
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Image Taken on 19 Jun 2024
at 00:31 Image of day on 14 Jul 2024
Tawny Owl preference in Rodents is undoubtedly for Voles, but here we
see that an incautious Fieldmouse (Wood Mouse) will do just fine. This is at half-past midnight
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Image Taken on 10 Oct 2019
at 01:56 Image of day on 26 Nov 2019
Over a single night, 2 visits from what looks like the same Tawny Owl.
Firstly a few minutes stay, and then a couple of hours later a touchdown but not a stay.
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Image Taken on 26 Oct 2016
at 20:57 Image of day on 03 Dec 2016
A Tawny Owl has restarted regular visits, sometimes a few days between
visits and sometimes 3 a night! Unpredictability is the watchword of
opportunistic hunters. Here the Tawny Owl gives us a spectacular landing
with eyes firmly shut.
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Image Taken on 27 Dec 2019
at 22:41 Image of day on 27 Jan 2020
This Tawny Owl spends 5 minutes on the meadow post, and is last seen there
crouching low and facing the Meadow camera site ... at which he promptly makes
a flyby catching his image (but apparently NOT any prey) as the bird passes.
The right edge of this montage is the edge of what we got.
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Image Taken on 06 Feb 2017
at 22:03 Image of day on 16 Mar 2017
The less regular Tawny Owl (the individual with the blue-grey eyelids and
moustache) at his preferred choice of perch at the kitchen
window.
The Owl broke the trigger beam on landing, folded the wings that allowed the
camera to reset, and then triggered the camera again when opening wings to drop
down. Rodents occupy the 'ground floor' between this perch and the house and
expect that one of them became the bird's next meal. The bottom of the leaving
bird was out of frame at the bottom of the original image, so this construct is
the best we can do.
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Image Taken on 21 Apr 2020
at 23:12 Image of day on 12 May 2020
This Tawny Owl makes a short visit to the kitchen window perch just before midnight.
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Image Taken on 06 Apr 2018
at 21:41 Image of day on 19 May 2018
The Tawny Owl visits the perch at the kitchen window.
The wings are partly folded as the Owl lands.
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Image Taken on 21 Mar 2017
at 22:18 Image of day on 02 May 2017
One of two Tawny Owl visits to the kitchen window perch 13 minutes apart.
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Image Taken on 21 Mar 2017
at 22:31 Image of day on 02 May 2017
One of two Tawny Owl visits to the kitchen window perch 13 minutes apart.
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Image Taken on 06 Mar 2017
at 19:56 Image of day on 10 Apr 2017
This Tawny Owl makes a 'flying visit' to the kitchen window perch.
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Image Taken on 27 Feb 2017
at 19:24 Image of day on 08 Apr 2017
'Our' less regular Tawny owl with Blue-grey patches on the facial disc first visited
the perch outside the Kitchen Window a couple of hours after sunset.
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Image Taken on 30 Jul 2016
at 01:30 Image of day on 14 Sep 2016
The Tawny Owl made this visit to the bird table and perch outside the
kitchen window - much closer than the Owl post so offering a more
detailed image.
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Image Taken on 03 Jun 2016
at 23:05 Image of day on 14 Jul 2016
One visit from the Tawny owl this week and that a single frame of
a landing, not that the image isn't rather fun.
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Image Taken on 14 Dec 2015
at 03:10 Image of day on 20 Jan 2016
A Tawny Owl visited this perch for a couple of minutes at about 3 a.m.
A little judicious cropping of a peanut feeder
obscuring the bird's left wing makes a pleasing memento of the
visit that is also almost as ferociously sharp as those claws.
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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2015
at 19:14 Image of day on 03 Mar 2015
Our only Owl sighting of any sort for a week was this Tawny Owl
landing outside the kitchen window on the peanut feeder perch.
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Image Taken on 19 Jan 2015
at 19:14 Image of day on 03 Mar 2015
A detail of the feet starting to wrap the talons around the perch.
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Image Taken on 17 Nov 2013
at 22:41 Image of day on 06 Jan 2014
Birds with their heads facing away are not normally the stuff of
interesting images, but the wonderful spread of feather on this
landing Tawny owl is irresistible.
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Image Taken on 03 Dec 2019
at 22:15 Image of day on 08 Jan 2020
3 successive frames at 1 minute intervals are lucky to catch the arrival,
a short look about, and then departure of this Tawny Owl in natural sequence.
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