An Evening with the Barn Owls

After last weeks Barn Owl session with Chiddy I was very keen to return to not only watch these beauties at close range but also to see if I could improve upon my images so last night I arrived at the site about 6pm and hoped I was in for a good night. The first hour was very quiet, just a couple of brief sightings of 2 Barn Owls as they flew through the beam on the car lights but plenty of mouse/vole action as they dashed over the road from side to side. I was starting to think that it was not going to be my night when just after 7pm I picked out a Barn Owl in the road with a fresh kill. I slowly drove up to it and it quite happily stayed where it was and continued to feed. Although not the best light I managed to get a few shots including this action shot which didn't turn out too bad.

Barn Owl

Eventually after swallowing the prey it flew off and landed on a post. I carried on seeing a further 2 more Barn Owls and the next 45 minutes was spent getting a number of images which I think have improved from last time.

Barn Owl

At times they even flew nearer the car and the camera wasn't needed, just a lovely stunning close view of these stunning birds. With a few shots gained and another successful mission I left about 8.15pm a very happy man. 

Barn Owl