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Birds - Tawny Owl Page 3
Image Taken on 02 Jan 2024
at 06:03 Image of day on 27 Jan 2024
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Image Taken on 25 Feb 2018
at 18:34 Image of day on 27 Mar 2018
A Visit by what we think of as the 'local' Tawny owl.
After the landing (left) we get a illustration of the rotation of an Owls neck -
270 degrees from multiple sources (all possibly referencing the same original).
While this sounds like the bird can almost 'look behind' it, it is actually
(360-270) / 2 = 45 degrees short of completely backwards each way. The eyes are
so big they can barely move them in their sockets', so to remove the 'blind
spot' compare the middle and right images to see that this Owl also
twists it's body to increase the amount of turn.
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Image Taken on 15 Jan 2017
at 01:41 Image of day on 21 Feb 2017
Several more Tawny Owl visits reveals 2 different individuals with distinctly
different feather colour and patterning. This one made a very active 12
minute visit. How about the landing while looking the other way?
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Image Taken on 17 Oct 2018
at 21:51 Image of day on 08 Dec 2018
A single Tawny Owl visit during a week.
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Image Taken on 18 Mar 2016
at 22:21 Image of day on 20 Apr 2016
A 13 minute visit by a Tawny Owl mostly showed us the birds back, but the camera did
catch this moment of the bird gazing up at we know-not-what.
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Image Taken on 25 Jul 2016
at 04:04 Image of day on 06 Sep 2016
Tawny Owls move around on the post top quite a lot if they stay for more than a
minute or two - this one spent 14 minutes staring intently down in various
directions. This was the second and longer of 2 visits on the same night.
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Image Taken on 20 Nov 2018
at 21:46 Image of day on 07 Jan 2019
Just 10 minutes later the same Tawny Owl lands on the meadow post and stops
there for a quarter of an hour.
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Image Taken on 02 Sep 2016
at 03:23 Image of day on 20 Oct 2016
After weeks of absence a Tawny Owl individual made a 19 minute visit. Here
is the flamboyant landing and the last two minutes of the suddenly agitated
bird moving around on the top after 15 minutes of almost totally static images.
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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2016
at 01:53 Image of day on 22 Sep 2016
The 4 day plethora of Tawny Owl pics included one spending a couple of minutes
on the post and then diving down onto site 5 (perhaps 10m away) and
photographing itself as it landed.
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Image Taken on 07 Aug 2016
at 01:56 Image of day on 22 Sep 2016
Here is the Tawny Owl pounce in more detail. The bird's right Talon seems to have grabbed
just a tuft of grass but the hidden left talon could have 'anything' in it, most likely
one of the many Fieldmice (Wood Mice) that visit this site.
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Image Taken on 05 Sep 2019
at 23:24 Image of day on 24 Oct 2019
After several weeks absence the Tawny Owl makes a couple of visits to the meadow
post half an hour apart on either side of midnight, top and then bottom right in
this montage.
The return may be have been encouraged by either the increase in the Mouse
population, or the previous afternoons hack down of undergrowth around the post.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2014
at 23:34 Image of day on 21 Dec 2014
As the nights lengthen we are starting to see more of the Owls.
Here is the dark-faced tawny owl and a rather attractive 1-off image of the
Barn owl with right leg ring.
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Image Taken on 02 May 2019
at 04:17 Image of day on 28 May 2019
On the second visit of the night, this Tawny Owl makes a really rather awkward landing
on the post. This is the only image from the second visit, and the bird may have
flown on to perch on one of the many other posts and branches that 'he' uses.
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Image Taken on 03 May 2023
at 21:57 Image of day on 17 Jun 2023
This Tawny Owl spent a couple of minutes on the Meadow post, only to arrive 90 minutes
later at the perch by the kitchen window. Facial features strongly suggest that it the same bird.
There are many good hunting perches around our patch, so Owls may spend many hours
moving around out of site of cameras.
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Image Taken on 23 Apr 2022
at 01:01 Image of day on 28 May 2022
A Tawny Owl makes a lovely touchdown on the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 17 Jun 2021
at 01:03 Image of day on 14 Jul 2021
After several weeks we see a Tawny Owl again, spending a couple of minutes at the meadow post.
Tawny Owls seems to prefer (or find easier to catch) Voles over Fieldmice (Wood Mice).
We see very few of either prey at the nearby Meadow site photo kit at the
moment, but there are plenty around, and unfortunately in, the house.
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Image Taken on 08 Aug 2023
at 02:11 Image of day on 28 Sep 2023
After some weeks of absence, this Tawny Owl twice lands of the Meadow Post
about 15 minutes apart.
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Image Taken on 05 Feb 2015
at 23:26 Image of day on 18 Mar 2015
A Tawny Owl visited the Meadow post twice just on either side of midnight.
It looks like a bit of a mist was descending.
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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 23 Mar 2019
at 21:51 Image of day on 19 Apr 2019
A Tawny Owl makes a swooping landing to settle on the perch.
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