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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    Think it was sometime last year there was a photo of it sitting on a house roof in the Sunderland Echo
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    My friend used to keep a female Eagle Owl in this back garden and some mornings he said he often found half eaten cat or a hedgehog beside the Owl.It must have got rid of a few cats and hedgehogs in his street when he had it.
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    Everyone knows about the ones that used to breed at Catterick they where on the NATIONAL NEWS and a PROGRAMME was show on BBC2 also the BIRDWATCHING MAGAZINE had a piece in about them and that male must be still in the area so i dont know why you said dont give site information on this forum...
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    Eagle Owls will be a great asset around our towns and cities for hunting rats ,stray cats and dogs they would certainly take quite a lot of the gulls which cause a great mess in our towns and cities.Thats one good point about breeding Eagle Owls in the UK.We had one in the centre of Sunderland...
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    I really hope Eagle Owls do get established as breeding birds in the UK i know Roy Dennis is all for Eagle Owl breeding in the UK.
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    The programme about the Eagle Owls in Yorkshire was on BBC2 few months ago and the Eagle Owls were on the National news few days before the programme was shown.And someone did say from the RSPB that they did want Eagle Owls breeding in the country and it would be a bad thing if they did
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    YES somebody from the RSPB said on the National news and on the programme that they do not want to see Eagle Owls breeding in the UK.
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    According to Rare birds in Britain and Ireland written by JN.Dymond,PA Fraser and S Gantlett there have been 25 records of Eagle Owl in the 18th and 19th centuries .There was a Eagle Owl in Argyllshire in 1883.Another book Firsts for Britain and Ireland by Phil Palmer There was a Eagle Owl on...
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    Have 'nt mentioned any breeding sites, the male Eagle Owl was mentioned on Birdline and Bird Guides for Gouthwaite Yorkshire when it was there.The Catterick pair no longer breed because someone shoot the female.IT was shot soon after the programme was on the television about them someone who...
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    There are at least 2 pairs breeding in the Midlands area and they are surposed to be pairs breeding in Scotland.Also there are more pairs breeding in Northern England .A male Eagle Owl was around Gouthwaite Reservoir Yorkshire for several weeks last winter.Seen from the Raptor view point it was...
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    Eagle Owls in Yorkshire??

    The pair of Eagle Owl which nested at Catterick were living beside sheep and they did'nt take any of the lambs there main prey were rabbits.Most Eagle Owls which live around Cities and Towns feed mainly on Rats also sometimes on cats and dogs.I went birding in Sweden a few years ago and talked...
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