Brookie's Diary
• Saturday, June 7, 2008 - Long Eared Owls
| Due to the nice calm evening I decided to pay a visit on to the local moors to try and see some evening birds. Setting up camp at about 9pm a few Meadow Pipits put in an appearance and then what I thought to be a raptor of some sort turned out to be a Cuckoo, with the pipits along side. The usual Chaffinch and Robins began settling down for the night, then out of the corner of my eye I caught the glimpse of a large brown bird, it had gone out of sight. A couple of minutes went by, which seemed like a couple of hours before the bird re-appeared yep! Long Eared Owl he/she then began to put in a great performance. Hunting over the moor and then settling down on to a fence post giving me a great opportunity to see this bird in full splendor. It wasn't all over another bird joined it both hunting the moor with one kindly flying over head. A great end to a great evening |
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