Greater Manchester - 6.11.18
Having taken many hundreds of images of the owl these are just a few more that I thought worth posting. Flight shots on the other hand were more difficult to shoot as the light in the afternoon required shooting at a very high iso, the owl also kept well away when it was in flight never allowing any decent close shots
Short-eared Owl
Always keeping its distance when in flight you can sometimes be tempted to over crop the image. The next two images both taken at iso 6400 would normally produce a poor quality image with this camera but I think it's ok in this instance due to the busy diffused grass background
Below is a image of a pellet the owl has cough up placed on a post to photograph using the iPhone
I've opened up the pellet showing fur and various bones of some kind of mammal, the skull is on the right and the large bone in the middle is the jaw bone
Some research on the Barn Owl Trust web site I came across the interesting "contents of owl pellets" page on which it shows the skull of a Field Vole amongst other parts, compared the skull in the above image its identical.
Who needs flights shots when you've got a bird on a post like that? Superb.
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