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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...
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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.