Still going through the night's footage.
0449 - Hares going home after a night's suburban pillaging.
Backyard critters, great and small
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I only just noted this great photo. It might be a barn owl? Either that or a baby powerful owl? It's just that it looks roughly the same size as the kookaburra but a full grown powerful owl is over four times the weight of a kookaburra. Their song is pretty distinctive though. Either way, it's great to have owls about.Irrev-Black wrote: ↑Fri Aug 18, 2023 11:12 am The night before last was "All Hares, All the Time", and I mainly noticed them because I had to review security footage so I could see what was driving the dog crazy.
I'm now looking at last night's archived stuff, to see what set Dog off a few times, and 0133's street-facing camera yields a huge shadow cast under the streetlight, crossing the pool of light below, plus a tantalising glimpse of leg or wingtip at the top margin of view.
The screenshot's nothing much to show, but it may be a Powerful Owl. We've got a few nest trees in the vicinity, and I often see larger critters which are almost certainly their leftovers.
Here's one I prepared earlier...
2015-07-15-kooka+owl.jpg
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Plumage suggests a juvie Powerful.pipbarber wrote: ↑Sun Aug 27, 2023 3:14 pm I only just noted this great photo. It might be a barn owl? Either that or a baby powerful owl? It's just that it looks roughly the same size as the kookaburra but a full grown powerful owl is over four times the weight of a kookaburra. Their song is pretty distinctive though. Either way, it's great to have owls about.
Barn owl here. ADD: Juvenile Paffles - https://www.owlpages.com/owls/species.php?i=770
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A possible Powerful Owl (bigly birdy well up overhead) from 2016.
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Seeing we're doing owls, and because I have to go through the whole picture archive since 2016 for some legal stuff, here's a Southern Boobook from Jan 1027.
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Another nature twofer - different species of frog, both spotted close to home on the same night (31 Mar 2017).
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Some dogs can herd a whole bunch of humans.
And some bastard's been cutting onions.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/column ... 649836007/
And some bastard's been cutting onions.
https://www.freep.com/story/news/column ... 649836007/
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The weather must have reached some crucial point.
We've just had the first ten-minute barrage of cicada noise.
Then they all went quiet at once, and only one or two are calling now.
We've just had the first ten-minute barrage of cicada noise.
Then they all went quiet at once, and only one or two are calling now.
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Re: Backyard critters, great and small
The regular visitors - Mum and Joey - joined by three younger relatives.
I can feel it