Barn Owl
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06:35 quartering the edge of a waste field sandwiched one way by A1184 & Cambridge - Liverpool Street rail line and the other way by a large house/builders yard & a light industrial unit behind houses, I saw as I drove by a beautiful Barn Owl, about five foot off the ground flying a search pattern.
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Hi Peter,
Lucky you! I suspect that hereabouts they were wiped-out by the harsh winter. I normally have them quartering the verges and fields around me and have not seen one since the bad weather.
Today is Skylark day with simple dozens and dozens overhead almost all the morning since very early.
A super pre-dawn chorus this morning with four different Song Thrushes competing with each other. Then for good measure there was a Blackbird on the barn roof giving forth.
JB.
Lucky you! I suspect that hereabouts they were wiped-out by the harsh winter. I normally have them quartering the verges and fields around me and have not seen one since the bad weather.
Today is Skylark day with simple dozens and dozens overhead almost all the morning since very early.
A super pre-dawn chorus this morning with four different Song Thrushes competing with each other. Then for good measure there was a Blackbird on the barn roof giving forth.
JB.
We too used to see a barn owl in the fields across the road. I think there was a pair, most probably living in the barn (!) along with lots of pigeons and feral peacocks.
I haven't seen them for a couple of years now, I didn't know they were susceptible to cold weather, maybe they perished in the previous winter.
I saw a muntjac in the small hours recently. I'd not seen one before, they are soooo tiny.
I haven't seen them for a couple of years now, I didn't know they were susceptible to cold weather, maybe they perished in the previous winter.
I saw a muntjac in the small hours recently. I'd not seen one before, they are soooo tiny.