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Surelynot 31 Jan 3:22pm, 31 Jan 2024 2,943 posts	0 Surelynot I took the dog out yesterday for our morning walk a good hour earlier, just before sunrise. I saw something white flash across my field of vision and fancied it was a barn owl. Walking down towards the meadow, I got a fantastic view of it hunting over the scrubland. I must have watched for a good 5 or 6 minutes until it disappeared in the distance, and the dog got antsy. What a fantastic start to the day.
Hanneke 31 Jan 3:24pm, 31 Jan 2024 119,131 posts	0 Hanneke Fabulous!
J2R 31 Jan 4:04pm, 31 Jan 2024 5,018 posts	0 J2R Barn owls are magical birds.
Derby Tup 31 Jan 4:52pm, 31 Jan 2024 64,113 posts	0 Derby Tup Barnies doing great in our area now, and far more common than SEO
Winniefree 1 Feb 8:11am, 1 Feb 2024 6,508 posts	0 Winniefree Seeing more round here too.
Curly45 1 Feb 8:51am, 1 Feb 2024 4,610 posts	0 Curly45 Bullfinch in the garden this morning 😍 Love owls we get a semi regularly tawny overnight but it is loud and always freaks me out.
Windsor Wool 1 Feb 12:52pm, 1 Feb 2024 6,185 posts	0 Windsor Wool lovely Bullfinch spot there Curly. I see them in the Lakes when I’m up there but that’s another finch that I’d never see down here. I remember when I was very young my grandad used to shoot the bullfinches with his air rifle as, in his mind, they used to eat the buds off his fruit trees and ruin his crop. Jesus…. Thinking about that makes me realise that I should stop complaining about the woodpigeons. But they really do devastate everything here. Hate them.
paulcook 1 Feb 12:55pm, 1 Feb 2024 4,211 posts	0 paulcook Haha. Don’t know how true it is but I once read woodpigeons serve almost no purpose to the wider ecology.
Derby Tup 1 Feb 12:57pm, 1 Feb 2024 64,132 posts	0 Derby Tup Three dippers this morning inc two singers
Curly45 1 Feb 2:17pm, 1 Feb 2024 4,611 posts	0 Curly45 Its probably the parakeets Windsor Wool as they eat all the berries dont they? Dont have them here, but they are in Derby so only a matter of time.

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