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Just another day
Topic Started: Mar 6 2018, 07:38 PM (150 Views)
accipiter
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Bit of a late start today but red kite, buzzard, and two female kestrels showed well but not long enough for any photos, this red legged partridge decided to move a bit on the fast side too as soon as it saw me as you can probably tell by the blurred photo. A tawny owl was calling in the thicket at 11 am this morning too as I made my way around the farm although this is not that unusual as I do sometimes hear them in daylight hours at this time of year. Oh, and here’s one I made earlier has they say.

Also found these plucked feathers a sparrow hawks victim I expect, a fieldfare if I am not mistaken, (note the giveaway breast feather)

Alan



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Davebutterflyman
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What a day you have had there Alan, great sightings and photos. It certainly looks like the tell-tale spread of feathers that a Sparrowhawk would leave behind.

Your Tawny Owl photo is eligible to be added to our bird photography challenge.

http://www.natureuk.org/topic/9022478/5/

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Alan what a lovely way to spend the day and a great shot of the Tawny Owl.
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AnnB
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Great photos, Alan.
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Great photo’s. I love the Owl!
Do you live on a farm Alan? If so it must be lovely to have all that Wildlife on your door step.
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I do indeed Africamfan, but I keep my whereabouts secret as much as possible because of past events, the following is a short summary of that thread along with a music track as it describes what I feel about where I live something that words can never do.You see I tend to see nature through music which may sound a little strange to some people but to me nature is music and both run deep within my very soul.

The tawny owls live very close to our house and look down on me every day as I pass by, I am sure they recognise me and see me as a friend as do all the animals that live here, at least I like to think so. In fact I did have a relationship with a wild male Sparrowhawk that lived here (including photos) of which I posted recently entitled (a remarkable bird.)

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I also hope the following short film will also go ‘some way’ to explain why I am so protective in reference to where I live, I was going to say it is facsimile of buzzard wood where I tread the very same path each day but my trees are much older. Quite hard to explain really but the wood shown has the same sort of feeling about it, I know some think my woods are nothing special at all, but to me they are ‘very special’ and mean absolutely everything,’ heaven on earth in fact; (‘It’s not what you look at that matters it’s what you see ’ Henry David Thoreau.) The old tree on the right in the foreground reminds me of the very tree my young Sparrowhawks food begging calls come from each summer since 1957 in fact (the calling tree) although my tree is much larger, also home to rare birds, foxes, and badgers (we do not allow hunting, shooting, or agree with badgers culls) not forgetting my beloved little owls that live in the meadows, meadows that bask in their scenic beauty a magical paradise of sight and sounds. I also have two more woods and a rookery where I awake to the quintessential sound of spring each year, (the call of the rook,) I call these woods nightingales rest and bluebell wood a cathedral tunnel of beautiful trees that bow their limbs to the heavens all wild woods lost in the realms of time. In fact, everything lives in harmony and serenity here as this wonderful music track enhancing the woods mood, tranquillity, and natural beauty shows, all safe from man with his traps, guns, poisons, and cruelty.

Can I also thank you all for your very kind words.

Alan

Music paints a thousand words. Carillon by Sky

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IRkeem3BtpM

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Davebutterflyman
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It must be wonderful to have Tawny owls in such close proximity.
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It is indeed Dave, we also have a pair of barn owls, other nesting birds now active are our Sparrowhawks which have already half finessed building their nests and buzz the buzzard is well on the way too in refurbishing last year’s nest. The female kestrel has now been joined by a male so this too looks promising but the monitoring of them falls to my wife as I am busy watching our little owls. With any luck the hobbies may well be back too to have another family this year.

Alan
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Wow!
Beautiful music and a magical little film.
Your life around your farm and walks in the woods do sound as you said like ‘Heaven on earth’ It really does sound like a magical place.
I was sorry to read that you have had problems in the past due to people knowing your location though,that’s sad.
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You are blessed to have these wonderful predators on your doorstep, the only ones I see are little Owls and Kestrels with the occasional Buzzard, yet to see a Hobby or Merlin. looking forward to more great photo's as the season progresses.
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