TawnyOwlCam

This all began last week when I found an interesting feather on the lawn (you can see there isn't much grass in the lawn!).

It is a primary flight feather from a tawny owl.  A couple of days later I found another one.  The next night the trail camera was set to look at the foxes and there were two short recordings of what looked like a tawny owl catching worms.

On one of the clips of the dog fox you can also hear an owl in the background.

The following night I set four cameras on the lawn with no result (apart from foxes all over the place) but on the second night one of the cameras recorded this video.  The action is brief so I have added a slow motion replay.

It is interesting that the owl sits so still, presumably because it is listening.  Interesting as well that it looks hard at the camera.  Owls are said not to be able to see infrared light but the camera also clicks occasionally - whether this is something audible from outside, or just a fault on the audio track I don't know.  There was a following clip but the owl was too quick for the reaction time of the camera and all that was recorded was a couple of leaves stirring in the downdraught from the wings after it took off.