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Birds - Tawny Owl Page 4
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 06 Jan 2026
at 06:32 Image of day on 17 Feb 2026
An almost accurate montage of a 1 minute visit by this 'Grey' Tawny Owl who
dives down after something they have spotted.
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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 15 Sep 2024
at 02:29 Image of day on 30 Oct 2024
This one night saw multiple visits to both the Meadow Post and the perch outside
the Kitchen. This seems to be a new visitor since the moult - the Vee shape above
the beak being distinct from the more recent visitor.
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Image Taken on 23 Dec 2025
at 18:11 Image of day on 31 Jan 2026
Tawny Owls visit the Meadow Post perhaps a few times a week.
This is the individual with Brown plumage.
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Image Taken on 14 Jan 2026
at 01:40 Image of day on 19 Feb 2026
This looks like two short visits by the same Tawny Own about half-an-hour apart.
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Image Taken on 16 May 2025
at 23:33 Image of day on 30 Jun 2025
A nearly midnight Owl visits the Meadow Post ...
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Image Taken on 19 Mar 2025
at 21:30 Image of day on 17 Apr 2025
Next day this Tawny Owl finally does appear at the Meadow post, but a strictly
back--to-camera affair. We blame an east wind again for requiring a landing
back to camera.
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Image Taken on 15 Nov 2024
at 04:40 Image of day on 25 Dec 2024
Well into the second half of the night the Tawny Owl makes an attractive landing
and is obviously very much on-the-hunt to leave a minute or two later.
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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 27 Dec 2025
at 00:44 Image of day on 05 Feb 2026
The 'Grey' Tawny Owl makes a brief stop on the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 12 Feb 2026
at 04:17 Image of day on 21 Mar 2026
Only a few Owl sightings this week - this appears to be the 'grey' Tawny Owl complete with
bloodstain beneath their beak visible on the right-hand image.
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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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Image Taken on 23 Mar 2019
at 21:51 Image of day on 19 Apr 2019
A detail shows the top edge of the wing with soft feathers to cut down wind
noise. Owls are famed for their Silent Flight.
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Image Taken on 23 Sep 2025
at 22:51 Image of day on 13 Nov 2025
The night of the 23-24 September seems to have been 'The Night of the Owls'.
Firstly 2 visits to the Meadow Post an hour before midnight .
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Image Taken on 05 Nov 2019
at 01:30 Image of day on 16 Dec 2019
Here a Tawny Owl makes a visit to the Kitchen Perch as they tour the site
in search of rodents.
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Image Taken on 25 Sep 2018
at 01:46 Image of day on 13 Nov 2018
Landing successfully accomplished, this Tawny Owl then starts to look
really intensely at something to the right - probably a rodent at the
meadow camera site.
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