The Breeding Season

As from now until the end of the breeding season birds of a sensitive nature will be omitted from this blog due to a small percentage of undesirables who take their pleasure from egg collecting, nest destroying and the killing and trapping of birds.
Reports of non breeding birds moving through the area will still be published. BS
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Wednesday, June 1, 2011

Tawny Owl at last







A thoughtful local birder, after seeing on my blog that Tawny Owl was a bit of a bogey bird for me, kindly e mailed me to say they were breeding in a box in his garden if I would like to see them. I called there this evening and within 2 minutes of pulling up in the car I was amazingly staring face to face with a beautiful Tawny Owl. What a beautiful bird these are and this was one of the best views Ive had for a long time.
Years ago I knew every tree at Ogden where they roosted and bred and the birds were always on show along with young but numbers are well down now , mainly since all the woodland has been opened to the public.
Many, many thanks to the birder concerned whose name and location cannot be published for obvious reasons.
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1 comments:

DJSutcliffe said...

Nice one Bri. If I find a Tawny nowadays they always fly off in the opposite direction. Mmmm must think about a nest box!