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Barn owls, pink footed geese and yellowhammer in Norfolk

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After visiting Titchwell on our visit to Norfolk we stopped off near a farm to see if we could spot some corn buntings. There sadly were none, but we saw some yellowhammers.
yellowhammer male 4

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red fox, european bison, tawny owls, wildcat and grey partridge

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Here are some photos from the trip to wildwood trust a few weeks ago. First up a red fox.
red fox close up

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Owl evening at Bedfords Park - Barn, Snowy, Eagle and Northern White faced owls

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On Thursday Night I popped up to Bedfords Park for one of their owl evenings. A selection of rescued and captive bred owls were shown and flown. This barn owl posed on the perch.
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Tawny owls in Kensington Gardens

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After visiting Regents Park, we headed to Kensington Gardens to look for the family of Tawny Owls that roost near the kinetic energy statue. The male was spotted soon after we arrived.
tawny owl male

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A barn owl at RSPB Rainham Marshes

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On Friday I popped over to Rainham marshes to see f I could find the Slavonian grebe again. I had no luck at the serin mound and wandered all round the RSPB reserve seeing nothing but a little egret and a few goldfinches that posed rather nicely on some teasel (photos of that in a later post). But as I was sitting in the centre word came through that there was a barn owl sitting on some prey close to the path right at the other end of the reserve. I thought about my recent luck with birds and how it was unlikely to still be there by they time I walked the mile to where it was. But I went for it anyway and I got there and there was no crowd looking but as I was about to admit defeat a chap called over and pointed out the owl on the fence

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Short eared owl on Skomer

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One of the main attactions to Skomer, other than the coastal birds, are the Short eared owls, Asio flammeus.

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Otter and Owl Sanctuary animals

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Carrying on from the previous two posts here are the photos of animals from the Otter and Owl Sanctuary. You can see exactly how tame the deer in the last post wasSue was trying to encourage it to nibble my bag, but it prefered her coat! lol

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Otter and Owl Sanctuary birds

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Here are the first batch of photos from the visit to the Otter and Owl Sanctuary in the New Forest. They have a number of bird feeders (less than last time though) and the first bird of note was a nuthatch

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Hainault Forest Country Park

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Last Thursday I headed to Hainault Forest Country Park to see if the frogs had emerged and begun spawning. My first stop was the lake were I spotted some pochards

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Two very different days at Conyer

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On Saturday I headed out for a walk around Conyer, as it was a nice sunny day and not too cold. Along the sea wall I spotted a pipit

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