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Barn owls, pink footed geese and yellowhammer in Norfolk

Monday, January 31, 2011 7:15:30 PM

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

Saturday, January 1, 2011 11:40:18 PM

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Here are some photos from the trip to wildwood trust a few weeks ago. First up a red fox.
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Owl evening at Bedfords Park - Barn, Snowy, Eagle and Northern White faced owls

Saturday, October 30, 2010 6:46:45 PM

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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

Monday, April 5, 2010 5:13:09 PM

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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

Sunday, February 7, 2010 12:16:53 PM

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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

Wednesday, July 8, 2009 3:40:52 PM

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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

Monday, May 4, 2009 10:10:02 PM

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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

Wednesday, April 29, 2009 9:20:13 PM

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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

Wednesday, March 4, 2009 8:33:38 PM

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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

Friday, February 6, 2009 12:02:58 AM

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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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