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Birds - Tawny Owl Page 9
Image Taken on 28 Aug 2024
at 02:20 Image of day on 23 Oct 2024
A single visit by a Tawny Owl to the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 19 Oct 2024
at 03:56 Image of day on 24 Nov 2024
5 images of this Tawny Owl taken at 1 minutes interval might suggest that the
Owl spent 5 minutes turning their head.
We are sure that this genuine naturally sequenced set is just a chance set of samples.
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Image Taken on 06 Jan 2023
at 04:19 Image of day on 29 Jan 2023
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Image Taken on 13 Mar 2019
at 04:35 Image of day on 06 Apr 2019
Do you like our Owl? (Quote from the movie 'Blade
Runner')
But there is nothing 'artificial' about ours!
As far as we can see this was an unbroken stay of 54 minutes.
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Image Taken on 05 Feb 2018
at 19:32 Image of day on 11 Mar 2018
Tawny Owl visits the Kitchen window perch for a spectacular landing and few
minutes stay during which the bird seems to stare continuously at the camera
(or perhaps it's reflection in the window).
The tips of the wing on our left were out of the original frame.
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Image Taken on 21 Oct 2016
at 22:59 Image of day on 03 Dec 2016
The first Tawny Owl visit this week spent a few minutes on the post,
had a little preen of his right foot, and next image was gone.
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Image Taken on 06 Apr 2018
at 21:31 Image of day on 15 May 2018
The local Tawny Owl visits the meadow post towards the camera
downwind of the post.
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Image Taken on 07 Dec 2019
at 16:50 Image of day on 10 Jan 2020
What looks like the 'local' Tawny Owl arrives for a few minutes hunt.
This bird always seems to fly 'up' to the perch.
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Image Taken on 02 May 2019
at 22:40 Image of day on 28 May 2019
The next night the Tawny Owl spends a few minutes watching the world go by.
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Image Taken on 03 Dec 2024
at 21:06 Image of day on 02 Jan 2025
A couple of moments from this Tawny Owl's visit on the Meadow Post.
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Image Taken on 24 Dec 2017
at 21:31 Image of day on 30 Jan 2018
This Tawny Owl made a landing at the kitchen window and stayed for about 7
minutes. The landing on the right was triggered by the bird's arrival, but it
blocked the beam break so the middle and left images had to be manually triggered.
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Image Taken on 09 Jul 2017
at 23:28 Image of day on 26 Aug 2017
This 7 minute visit by the Tawny Owl was a very active affair as you can see
from this selection of positions. But as usual the feet don't move!
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Image Taken on 03 Apr 2018
at 21:39 Image of day on 08 May 2018
After a couple of weeks of absence the Tawny owl visited for 7 minutes before
diving down to the short grass on the right side of the post.
Photographing a bird leaving like this is just luck - beam breaks react much
more slowly to the beam returning than being broken - here the next timed
picture just happened to occur at the right moment.
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Image Taken on 11 Oct 2020
at 23:47 Image of day on 23 Nov 2020
The increase in rodent numbers makes it worthwhile again for Owls to
hunt over the patch.
Two and a half hours after the Barn Owl stops by, the Tawny Owl stops by for 7 minutes.
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Image Taken on 27 Apr 2018
at 01:17 Image of day on 11 Jun 2018
On this night the Tawny Owl spent about 2 hours hunting around our patch,
landing on the Meadow post 7 times. Here are 6 of the landings
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Image Taken on 27 Apr 2018
at 02:31 Image of day on 11 Jun 2018
In this landing (the fourth) the Tawny Owl has caught some prey and brought it
back to the post to eat. From the size of lack of feathers we think this is/was a Shrew,
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Image Taken on 14 Jan 2024
at 18:27 Image of day on 07 Feb 2024
Two days later we see another Owl visiting the same Pollarded Willow, this time
a Tawny Owl seen at the Meadow Post a few minutes earlier.
We have to assume that its is the same individual.
Scale from the 2 very different cameras is here not controlled.
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Image Taken on 08 Oct 2017
at 04:22 Image of day on 12 Nov 2017
This Tawny Owl stayed for about 8 minutes. Standing at the left edge with the
sense IR beam grazing it's breast, it only fired the camera a few times. The
middle image shows the relaxed bird having a little preen, before getting down
to the serious business of hunting. No images of the Owl at the ground level
photo site it is facing, unfortunately.
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Image Taken on 14 Jan 2017
at 19:49 Image of day on 21 Feb 2017
Several more Tawny Owl visits reveals 2 different individuals with distinctly
different feather colour and patterning.
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Image Taken on 03 Jan 2022
at 20:44 Image of day on 05 Feb 2022
This Tawny Owl makes a welcome visit to the meadow post, staying
for about 8 minutes. Past experience suggests that this was just one
of many stops on the numerous other hunting perches around the site.
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