Backyard critters, great and small

[Irrev-Black]

Still going through the night's footage.

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0449 - Hares going home after a night's suburban pillaging.

[stylofone]

The neighbours, this morning.

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[pipbarber]

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...
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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]

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.

Plumage suggests a juvie Powerful.

Barn owl here.

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ADD: Juvenile Paffles - https://www.owlpages.com/owls/species.php?i=770

[Irrev-Black]

A possible Powerful Owl (bigly birdy well up overhead) from 2016.

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[Irrev-Black]

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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[Irrev-Black]

Another nature twofer - different species of frog, both spotted close to home on the same night (31 Mar 2017).

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[Irrev-Black]

Some dogs can herd a whole bunch of humans.

And some bastard's been cutting onions.

https://www.freep.com/story/news/column ... 649836007/

[Irrev-Black]

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.

[stylofone]

The regular visitors - Mum and Joey - joined by three younger relatives.

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