From Paul Moore
Visited RSPB Wallasea today to photograph the Short Eared Owls with my mate Mark O’Dell. It was a beautiful clear sunny day but there was a harsh cold wind. Unfortunately the Shorties didn’t show but we were treated to a display by a Barn Owl as we were leaving at sunset. Great to see and capture my first Barnie of 2025.
Fascinating! Maybe I’ll get a chance to stop by there if I’m ever in Pittsburgh.
It looks so small in that picture, but like a lot of small birds, they know how to project. The one around here is pretty active, and you can tell how far it goes by how the sound changes. It moves pretty fast.
We had a lot of fun in the Pittsburgh area. The Aviary was very nice. There was a big room of tropical birds, they had Eagle Owls and the condors. The botanical gardens were very lovely. The natural history museum has lots of great fossils too.
Owls can have a lot of territory to cover. The Great Horned here always sounds pretty far away, but I don’t hear any other owls around here.