When Was The Last Time You Saw A Barn Owl?

[man o kent 269]

Round here a lot of potential nesting sites have been converted to dwellings, it's sad to see the old farm yards and barns modernised and filled with London bell ends! Not a lot of wild countryside till you get to the marsh or Rother levels

[baw 4,360]

 

 

 

 

I haven't seen one for a year or two. I'm always amazed at how silently they fly, esp when you are sitting quietly fishing in the evening, and they scare the crap out of you by flying overhead! Sad to see such a beautiful birds numbers decline so quickly

just after 4:30 this morning when the b*****d woke me up sat out the back screeching like a banshee

Sorry, that was me mate, your misses wasn't responding to my normal quieter tweet twwoo signal

that's because she is deaf

You both must be, I'd been doing it since half 1 and tell your neighbour he can get his boot back once he's paid my dentist bill

[Bosun11 537]

There's a few round here and an albino one, which twitcher's flock in to catch a glimpse of.

It does make me smile when I walk past 'em, huge lens cameras, top of the range gear and not a glimpse of the critter. Only to arrive back home and watch it on the field from my front window.

The other week I stumbled upon a realtree geek squat in a ditch, eyes peeled. I'm sure he would of loved to have taken umbridge to my sapling mutt dancing round him excitedly, as they don't like dogs but as I was looming over him he just looked up and said alright. I asked him what he was looking for, knowing the answer?

'The white owl', was the reply and he looked through his lens, pointing out over the field for good measure (maybe to re-enforce the point he was lookin..!).

'It's there' I told him, because it was sat in a tree, about 30 yards further along the ditch, looking at us....

[the_stig 6,614]

 

 

Regularly see them round here.

travelled down to skegness saw a few just before it turned dark saw 6 in total on the trip down a46 a158 route seems to be blessed with them saw 2 in as many minutes at burgh...

 

 

There's a lovely little village local to my parents in Lincolnshire, by the river is maybe 20-30 acres of unkept hedges and fields kept for silage, very often see Barn Owls round there. Quite a few other places like that too.

 

On the shoot there's a patch of setaside that holds English partridge nicely, we counted seven Tawny Owls lift out of that early this season.

 

because a lot of its flat the barn owls tend to fly across the roads as if there not there ------ a lot of wildlife along the coastline sea fishing at night at anderby creek the mrs sat in the van and counted 7 foxes checking out the bins and the amount rabbits/hares you see that way unreal..

Edited February 24, 2014 by the_stig

[toby63 1,236]

i sometimes have visits from them hovvering over my head when squeaking for charlie

[baw 4,360]

i sometimes have visits from them hovvering over my head when squeaking for charlie

Aye, my mate see some crazy shit when he's sniffing the Charlie too....

[The one 8,504]

Theres loads at work never see them but you hear them at dusk

[Malt 379]

Pair nest in the barn a few hundred yards down the road from me..

 

Round here a lot of potential nesting sites have been converted to dwellings, it's sad to see the old farm yards and barns modernised and filled with London bell ends! Not a lot of wild countryside till you get to the marsh or Rother levels

That is sad. Big company not far from my old place turned some barns into holiday lets, reckoned they'd never seen a barn owl in the 10 years or so that they'd owned the land there when some locals brought it up. I used to see them regular sat on the gate to one of their fields if you drove past when it was getting dark..

[*The*Field*Marshall* 674]

This privilege largely depends on where you live unfortunately. I was lucky enough to see one yesterday at dusk. . Beautiful, ghostly kinda bird.

[CBdogsA1 420]

See at least one every night, plenty about and so far its been a great winter for them. Not much snow and all this water is forcing mice to spend lots of time on the surface. The resident barney here hunts the odd day time too.

 

They squeak in pretty easy which is super when you have a camera and lamp with you.

[clipo 871]

i sometimes have visits from them hovvering over my head when squeaking for charlie

i can remember calling a fox in once and then just seen a white flash above me, looked up and there was a barn owl hovering there!!! If i never saw it tho id wouldnt of known it was there....makes you wonder how many times it does happen and you never see them.....

[sussex 5,777]

See one virtually every evening I sit up on one of my permissions in east sussex , when I commented to the owner how often I see them he was amazed , he had never seen them in the eight years he's owned the place (he's not a farmer) ,after 1 evening in the seat he was made up after seeing the pair glide by at about 30ft .I think last year was the best year I can remember for seeing barn owls , got to be a fairly common sight .

[spade 224]

See them frequently where we are.