Monday’s Otter Safari featured a quite surreal evening, as mist developed over the pools, close to the Northumberland coast, really playing tricks on the eyes. As Coots scattered and Mallards and Mute Swans all stared in the same direction, our quarry remained hidden from view. Roe Deer were bounding around the poolside vegetation, and a magnificent Long-eared Owl ghosted silently by. As darkness approached we headed back towards Church Point to drop Erin and Adrian off before taking Christina and Sean back to their respective holiday accommodations. Along the road we came across 2 Barn Owls and then a Tawny Owl, sitting on prey in the middle of the road before flying to a nearby fence post and glaring balefully at us.
Three owl species in little over an hour, and Tuesday’s trip was a bespoke photography outing for Christina to photograph Short-Eared Owls. I’ll blog about that one tomorrow 🙂
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It should be a great day out though Otter did not appeared! But the Long-eared Owl and the Rabbit was impressed me! I love the weather also though the weather is not good for bird watching!
The trip photo can be found as follow
http://www.fotop.net/yinming/2012northumberland