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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 1714128" data-attributes="member: 36432">Nipped out of work a bit early last night to try for the Moor Green Barn Owls.  I had good views for about an hour but they stayed right down the far end of the field - its no consciousness of me, they happily hunt right next to people.However, I spotted the big bushy grey-grizzled fox coming up the field and stood perfectly still while he came right up to the plantation about thirty yards left of me, sat down and barked twice in the clear expectation of his partner coming out to see him: she didn't.  Eventually he got bored and came my way, and I got a difficult dusk-light flash pic of him full frame at about twenty yards.  This naturally sent him back the other way, and I heard him barking further along towards the car park a little later.Before I left I watched a Little Owl undulate across the field, and on reaching the car I watched a young fox (lean and not very bushy) scent mark its way across the field on the far side of the road from the reserve.  It seemed to have a stiff rear leg but not to be at all worried by it.Much later in the evening I went on a fox patrol from the house, and immediately found eyeshine on my side of the brook.  I focused on it and found, on the back of the camera, a perfectly focused, full frame pic of a superb glossy red-coated fox curled up on the bank of the brook!  It let me have about eight more before unconcernedly getting up, moving about twenty yards along the bank to put the bulk of a weeping willow (thin cover at best) between us and lying back down again! If that's his typical reaction to photographers I am in for an excellent spring at home.  Moving the flash a foot off the camera with a bracket has reduced the eye glare to within the eye itself, so it should be susceptible to treatment for red-eye.Not bad for a week night.John</blockquote>

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