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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:34 am
by nan
Spotted Eagle-Owl/Grand-Duc africain
Kgalagadi

10.4.2007
The first Owl I ever saw... they spoke about a :-? ... I understood "Eagle" amongst a lot of other words, so I searched at the top of the tree, like I think I will find an Eagle... and search and search... it was just in front of me... O/\ what a marvellous bird O/\
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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 9:29 pm
by Duke
Just about 2km from the SEO chicks there were SEO teens - four of them O:V

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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 10:48 pm
by nan
Spotted Eagle-Owl/Grand-Duc africain
Kruger 20.5.2011

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Verreaux's Eagle-Owl/Grand-duc de Verreaux
Kgalagadi 23.1.2012

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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Mon Dec 09, 2013 11:03 pm
by nan
Spotted Eagle-Owl/Grand-Duc africain

Talamati 27.4.2011
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Cape Town 4.3.2011
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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 6:29 pm
by nan
Spotted Eagle-Owl/Grand-Duc africain
Kgalagadi 29.9.2012

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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Wed Dec 11, 2013 7:53 pm
by okie
Spotted eagle owl - one of a resident pair , here on the farm at Worcester .

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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 6:54 pm
by Duke
Barn owl with the tiniest of chicks O:V

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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Thu Dec 12, 2013 9:53 pm
by nan
Barn Owl / Effraie des clochers

me too I have one =O:
21.2.2011 - the only one I saw in the wild... O/ :o0ps:

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and this one... you know it - 2.10.2012
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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Fri Dec 13, 2013 9:53 am
by Michele Nel
Ah one of my favourite birds...

A Barn Owl taken in the KTP

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Re: Owls - Bird of the month December 2013

Posted: Sun Dec 15, 2013 12:03 am
by Duke
During our visit to the KTP in October 2011 we got daily sightings of a Barn Owl Family at 14 Borehole. The owls had take up residence in part of a Sociable Weaver nest

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