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Happy New Year to you all and welcome to the 2019 thread.
Christmas was hectic as usual but now down to serious task of birding!
Heard the Eagle Owl last night and saw him fly over the trees in the distance. I couldn't relocate. I was really happy with my find until, well still happy to see it, but the parks guy heard two Tengmalms Owls last night in a reasonably accessible place - tomorrow night me thinks!
Bouyed by my success I headed back tonight and heard some calling 1/2 hour earlier than but I wanted to get there before it was too dark. I set up the scope and tried to locate the bird but was disturbed by a Wild Boar. I could hear it moving through the bushes and even an 'oink' - I tried to make a noise to scare it off but it didn't work so it managed to scare me off.
I dropped down to the roadside and then the Owl appeared, flew across the road past me and perched on a pylon next to me! Completely ignored me for 3 minutes then dropped onto something in front of me. I couldn't work out what but it wasn't the wild boar. About thirty seconds later he took off and went back over the road.
Absolutely, gobsmacked what a great experience....
Christmas was hectic as usual but now down to serious task of birding!
Heard the Eagle Owl last night and saw him fly over the trees in the distance. I couldn't relocate. I was really happy with my find until, well still happy to see it, but the parks guy heard two Tengmalms Owls last night in a reasonably accessible place - tomorrow night me thinks!
Bouyed by my success I headed back tonight and heard some calling 1/2 hour earlier than but I wanted to get there before it was too dark. I set up the scope and tried to locate the bird but was disturbed by a Wild Boar. I could hear it moving through the bushes and even an 'oink' - I tried to make a noise to scare it off but it didn't work so it managed to scare me off.
I dropped down to the roadside and then the Owl appeared, flew across the road past me and perched on a pylon next to me! Completely ignored me for 3 minutes then dropped onto something in front of me. I couldn't work out what but it wasn't the wild boar. About thirty seconds later he took off and went back over the road.
Absolutely, gobsmacked what a great experience....