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Re: [OM] This year's Snowy Owl Prowl

Subject: Re: [OM] This year's Snowy Owl Prowl
From: Chris Barker <ftog@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Tue, 4 Feb 2020 11:01:59 +0000
A pleasure, Mike.

In the UK the Barn Owl is quite pale and looks ghostly in flight, particularly 
in twilight hunts – 
https://www.barnowltrust.org.uk/barn-owl-facts/uk-owl-species/

I’d love to catch one with my camera, but that would require an extended prowl 
as well :-)

Chris

> On 4 Feb 2020, at 00:31, Mike Gordon via olympus <olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 
> wrote:
> 
> Thanks much for looking and commenting Chris, Philippe and Jim.  I had 
> visions of catching one in flight with yellow eyes blazing perhaps going 
> after a critter.
> I think one  would have to lie low and watch for hours.  They need to 
> conserve energy  for survival so it is not advisable to get close enough to  
> pester them and we were very careful in that regard. 
> 
> No time for extended prowls, Mike

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