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So I drive somewhere different this morning, and watch the Rabbits,  Brown Hare, Curlew, Oystercatcher, Skylark and Meadow Pipit all starting the new day. I come to a dead end and sit and look over a valley imaginings of Barn Owl, Short Eared Owl flying low looking for food for the young Owlets. I am so appreciated of the beauty of the English countryside. Hundreds of hours of searching 11 years…

I made boxes for the birds in Goodenbergh Country Park and 3 years ago I made a Barn Owl nest box and placed it in a tree near to my wildlife hide. The Jacdaw Squirrels and Stock Doves usually get in the box first but I got a really nice surprise when I was just sitting in the Deer hide. The sight of a Tawney Owl flying headfirst at the box and carrying a mouse in for what looks like young. I…

Took Al my mate up to the moors just outside Bentham, the light was not that good but what we saw made up for it. I took him to a spot where I know the Short Eared Owl hunts and you see Grouse, Curlew, Lapwing and Skylark, plus the Brown Hare. We arrive and spotted 2 Curlew over a wall but they reacted to fast flying off. Then we walked down to another wall, then up in the sky I said look Al a…

Having been gifted to take photographs of Owls and then to turn the image into a memory is so satisfying. When the passion is so strong and your dedication and love for a bird is total commitment,there is no better way than to make a memory live on This Owl gave me so many beautiful moments while I sat in my hide that it had to go into 2 Wood Frames I made 3 years ago. Maybe it was meant to be…

The Barn Owl has a mate. This is the female Identified by brown spots or specs on her stomach. I place a pole in the ground 3 weeks ago and while sitting there today she came in and modelled for me. But there was a brown object just below my lens that messed my composition up. So it’s take 2 as they say. No sharpening needed light good and kept my ISO down. Just edited on my Phone no need for…

Aim today is using the Sony 100-400mm film in video of the Owl on the new stump Winds High so may not happen but I am here ready. I am a day behind, call it age if you must. But after a day of accidents yesterday including falling into my hide and ripping all the ground supports out. Then loosing my phone getting a tree stump for the Barn Owl to land on. Then putting the stump in the ground I…

God Only Knows. So I awake on a Summers morning. 4.30 on my little Scooter ĺeaving my wife and Bella asleep i head out as I have done for years. Why do you get up so early?, people ask. You must be mad some people say. What makes you do it?, others ask. There is a thing called Passion not used or heard a lot in daily conversations but something you need if you want to succeed in life. I…