The Accidental Smallholder Forum
Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: Greenmoor on August 22, 2012, 10:29:58 am
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Just thought I'd share this video I took of a barn owl a few weeks ago. We'd seen it a few times briefly, so I'd taken to carrying my camera around in the hope I'd manage to grab a photo of it. I couldn't believe my luck when I managed to shoot this :excited:
Apologies for the shakiness, I'd zoomed right in and the excitement had got to me :D!
http://youtu.be/A99s3RDgKUU (http://youtu.be/A99s3RDgKUU)
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Fantastic that you managed to video it. Thanks for sharing
Sally
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Greenmoor - that's a great clip :thumbsup: I love the bits where it's hovering and you can see the legs moving back and forth for balance, while keeping the eyes absolutely stable. What a beautiful bird - and well done for filming it.
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Thanks Greenmoor - that was great - well done you for being prepared :thumbsup:
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Glad you all enjoyed it - the best bit was when I turned around afterwards to share the excitement with my hubs and realised he'd been standing in the opposite gateway looking in the wrong direction and had missed it all ;D
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Glad you all enjoyed it - the best bit was when I turned around afterwards to share the excitement with my hubs and realised he'd been standing in the opposite gateway looking in the wrong direction and had missed it all ;D
:roflanim:
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Great clip :excited: :excited:
What time of day was it? I was surprised to see it doing the hover - dunno why but it never occurred to me that owls would hover like other predator birds doh!
Bet your OH was a bit >:(
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Great clip Greenmoor, thanks for sharing! :thumbsup:
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Oh, that's an amazing bit of film :thumbsup: What a lovely bird ;D
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Kids enjoyed that too, thanks, that bit where it just kept hovering, brilliant.
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What time of day was it? I was surprised to see it doing the hover - dunno why but it never occurred to me that owls would hover like other predator birds doh!
Bet your OH was a bit >:(
It was 9.45pm and I had no idea that they hovered like that either!
Yep, OH's language was pretty colourful :-[, but I did point out that I only saw what he watched back on the clip anyway.
Thanks everyone :)
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That was so beautiful. I dream of seeing one in our fields. We put up three owl boxes and got pigeons ::) .
Thank you for sharing it, take a :bow: