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A very dark grey walk this morning, fields are well and truly flooded now and more Ducks than anything else on the ground.
After a lot of slipping around in the mud I found a Barn Owl hunting in fields, I moved around and lost track of it for a while as the gas bird scarers started firing, on the way back to the track I clocked a pair in a paddock not to far away, so picked up the camera and ran like my backside was on fire to try and catch up with them.
One Barn Owl disappeared with a catch, the other stayed on a tree for a while... I was glad it was in a tree, as I had a chance to get my breath back!![Laugh :LOL: :LOL:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.tp/lol.gif)
After a short while it returned to flying around the field scanning the grass.
I was pushing my luck with settings as the light was bad, 1/640 - f5.6 - ISO 5000, @600mm FF
C&C welcome as always
Thank you for looking![Thumbs Up (y) (y)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
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Barn Owl 1 5000 ISO by Gavin Wickham, on Flickr
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Barn Owl 2 5000 ISO by Gavin Wickham, on Flickr
A very dark grey walk this morning, fields are well and truly flooded now and more Ducks than anything else on the ground.
After a lot of slipping around in the mud I found a Barn Owl hunting in fields, I moved around and lost track of it for a while as the gas bird scarers started firing, on the way back to the track I clocked a pair in a paddock not to far away, so picked up the camera and ran like my backside was on fire to try and catch up with them.
One Barn Owl disappeared with a catch, the other stayed on a tree for a while... I was glad it was in a tree, as I had a chance to get my breath back!
![Laugh :LOL: :LOL:](/styles/default/xenforo/smilies.tp/lol.gif)
After a short while it returned to flying around the field scanning the grass.
I was pushing my luck with settings as the light was bad, 1/640 - f5.6 - ISO 5000, @600mm FF
C&C welcome as always
Thank you for looking
![](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Flive.staticflickr.com%2F65535%2F52785435608_72cec32a57_b.jpg&hash=9bdb0905987a94abb25227c3de024201)
Barn Owl 1 5000 ISO by Gavin Wickham, on Flickr
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Barn Owl 2 5000 ISO by Gavin Wickham, on Flickr