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Smallholding => Wildlife => Topic started by: Greenmoor on August 22, 2012, 10:29:58 am

Title: Barn Owl
Post by: Greenmoor on August 22, 2012, 10:29:58 am

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)

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Bionic on August 22, 2012, 10:36:05 am

Fantastic that you managed to video it.  Thanks for sharing
Sally
 

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Fleecewife on August 22, 2012, 10:45:12 am

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.

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Brucklay on August 22, 2012, 12:40:40 pm

Thanks Greenmoor - that was great - well done you for being prepared  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Greenmoor on August 22, 2012, 01:21:20 pm

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

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Fleecewife on August 22, 2012, 03:07:33 pm

Quote from: Greenmoor on August 22, 2012, 01:21:20 pm

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:

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Sudanpan on August 22, 2012, 05:42:40 pm

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  >:(

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: bangbang on August 22, 2012, 06:38:03 pm

Great clip Greenmoor, thanks for sharing!  :thumbsup:

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: jaykay on August 22, 2012, 07:46:36 pm

Oh, that's an amazing bit of film  :thumbsup:  What a lovely bird  ;D

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: goosepimple on August 22, 2012, 07:56:32 pm

Kids enjoyed that too, thanks, that bit where it just kept hovering, brilliant.

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Greenmoor on August 22, 2012, 08:22:38 pm

Quote from: Sudanpan on August 22, 2012, 05:42:40 pm

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  :)

Title: Re: Barn Owl
Post by: Bramblecot on August 23, 2012, 09:32:54 pm

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: