The ever popular Barn Owl

Gorgeous views of a barn owl hunting in the afternoon. It was a beautiful day (snow covered Inglebrough, Pen-y-gent and lush golden sunlight.

Barn owl came out of a barn and we followed it hunting over moorland. Tragically took snaps into the light. Playing about practising with shutter speeds and aperture etc lead to some over exposed shots :-(
Oh well, it is all a learning experience. I kind of like the pictures anyway- even though they are photographically speaking sub-standard.

Barn Owls everywhere

Went to see whether we could spot our Barn Owl again but had no luck. Driving home we spotted a hare sitting close to the road in a field seemingly just begging to be photographed- unfortunately it sped off before we got out of the car. Whilst we stood watching him haring away I noticed another barn owl fly through a missing pane of glass into a barn. It was quite away away but managed a few shots and thoroughly enjoyed the spectacle of it hunting and returning.

Watching a Barn Owl Strike

We had the great fortune to see a barn owl strike this early evening, and managed to capture it on camera. (Well, one of us did - Jo has spent the past 2 hours spluttering language that would cause a barn owl to glow pink as she'd put her lens on the wrong setting). Not the greatest photographs ever, but at least it's possible to see what's going on.

I'm not so sure what it's caught - a mole?

Back up Barn Owl Hill

Just trolling over Barn Owl Hill in ever decreasing light and weird misty evening gloaming, and saying, having scanned the usual haunts at 5.30pm, "Nah......maybe during a nice late light evening in April-May-June, we could sit out at 9ish and see a busy parent out hunting, but for now...... OH MY GOD!! There she be!" (or he... we cannot claim to be expert at sexing a dim lit flying barny- even Collins Complete Guide to British Birds doesn't go near to explaining the differences)
Anyway great viewing lasting a good 15 minutes as ...IT flew over the fields on both sides and into and out of conifer woodland and landed on a post in a copse of broadleaf leafless youthful trees. We managed to take some pretty close quarter shots of it -you get close the light's bad; the light's good you don't get close!! La di da!!
Anyway a few shots that make us smile happily. Did we say we lurve barn owls...
Who couldn't?

Barn owl (Location? Barn Owl Hill, of course!)

We'd just packed our cameras away and were driving home when we saw a barn owl hunting. We leapt out of the car after executing a Top Gear-esque brake and stop, and managed to get a few shots before it flew into some woods.

Pants