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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Farnboro John" data-source="post: 1719492" data-attributes="member: 36432">Already checked your Eastern Front thread - cracking pic!  Freezers are all very well but you can't beat fresh food, that's what I say.I had another go at the Barn Owls last night and cocked it up a treat with no assistance from anyone else.  I arrived at about the right time and was scampering along the river path when I noticed the velvet Roebuck from the previous night in the open and stopped to photograph him.  I got some quite decent shots and was just setting off to my chosen ambush point when one of the Barn Owls performed a letter-perfect flyby right where I wanted him.Just about thirty seconds too early for me.......There was a fox scent-marking in the field with the Roebuck, and a Grey Squirrel running along the top of a post and rail fence.  Later as I waited unusuccessfully for a repeat performance (the other owl was up in the top field) another fox trotted along a ridge in the middle of the frozen gravel pit, occasionally using the smooth surface of the gravel conveyor belt as a footpath.  About forty Egyptian Geese swept overhead chortling noisily on their way to roost on the reserve.Home again without the pic I was after - the dangers of distraction!John</blockquote>