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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    I saw a long-eared (I think!) owl tonight, sat on a wall watching me and the dogs. Overall greyish looking, not quite brown and roundy-squat looking to be a tawny, and I think it had the long 'ears'...

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Quote Originally Posted by plodding bear View Post
    I saw a long-eared (I think!) owl tonight, sat on a wall watching me and the dogs. Overall greyish looking, not quite brown and roundy-squat looking to be a tawny, and I think it had the long 'ears'...

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Quote Originally Posted by wharfeego View Post
    Is it me or does this owl look as if he has just witnessed something 'startling'.....

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Quote Originally Posted by Derby Tup View Post
    I've seen golden plover on Beamsley Beacon before and there's plenty on Gt Whernside, above Hagg Dyke normally
    We saw a Golden Plover this morning while running across the moor behind Simon's Seat and just a few feet away a bunch of plover chicks trying their damnedest to scuttle away through the heather. My trusty photographer took this picture (spot the chick):



    Also a deer down by the ford below Storiths and a huge heron further along the river
    Last edited by Stolly; 21-05-2011 at 05:22 PM.

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Is that a 'Mr.' Golden Plover? the one I saw was similar, but much duller. The long-eared owl, I think that was him, he was about 30 yards away...

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Just back from a week at Corrour Lodge and some cracking days out on the hills.
    Wildlife encounters included loads of deer, ptarmigan, dotterel, golden plover, black grouse and a stunning view of a golden eagle as we dropped off Stob Choire Claurigh

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Nobody seen owt lately?

    I snapped this lovely Mute Swan on the River Ribble the other evenin'...


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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    A rare buzzard t'other day at Harewood wharfee. Must be a bit odd surrounded by all those red kites!
    Poacher turned game-keeper

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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Went past a heron when I was out running at lunchtime today. Makes a change from the gazzillion geese and swans I usually see.


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    Re: Today's Wildlife Encounter

    Snake in the toilet at the school where the Mrs. works!
    Any more info biara?
    Brown and green, she says, grass snake? Or crack cobra
    Last edited by stevefoster; 26-05-2011 at 09:24 PM.

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