• Hi all and welcome to TheWoodHaven2 brought into the 21st Century, kicking and screaming! We all have Alasdair to thank for the vast bulk of the heavy lifting to get us here, no more so than me because he's taken away a huge burden of responsibility from my shoulders and brought us to this new shiny home, with all your previous content (hopefully) still intact! Please peruse and feed back. There is still plenty to do, like changing the colour scheme, adding the banner graphic, tweaking the odd setting here and there so I have added a new thread in the 'Technical Issues, Bugs and Feature Requests' forum for you to add any issues you find, any missing settings or just anything you'd like to see added/removed from the feature set that Xenforo offers. We will get to everything over the coming weeks so please be patient, but add anything at all to the thread I mention above and we promise to get to them over the next few days/weeks/months. In the meantime, please enjoy!

Mumbles

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It's quite amazing what a mobile phone camera can do these days. With my phone held in my right hand, I managed to get this shot of a (captive-bred, obviously) Indian Eagle Owl just about to land on my left hand:

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(the owl's called "Mumbles" in case you were wondering about the thread title).

A wonderful day out in North Nibley with Wren's Birds of Prey.
 
Having been on the receiving end of an Eagle-Owl's talons (Oehoe as we call them), there's no way I would dare to call him a wimp. ;) I had come too close to it's nest without realising it. It went into full attack mode to protect its off-spring. Who can blame it. Such impressive animals!
 
HdV said:
Having been on the receiving end of an Eagle-Owl's talons (Oehoe as we call them), there's no way I would dare to call him a wimp. ;) I had come too close to it's nest without realising it. It went into full attack mode to protect its off-spring. Who can blame it. Such impressive animals!
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Of course. I am also sure that short eared owls talons can also do severe damage.
 
That is an incredible photo, Al.

I think of all the eagle owls, the African Eagle Owl is the most spectacular. I was driving in Zambia a few years ago when the sky was blocked out by an African Eagle Owl flying over my vehicle before landing in a nearby tree. It was just a little smaller than a pterodactyl. If you can wait a while, I'll find the slide, scan it, digitally revive the faded colours, re-size it, and attach it here as a file*. Believe it or not, I then went around a corner and came across a Martial Eagle on stump just a few feet from the track.


*No, I won't.
 
Love owls. Great Photo Al. We have Tawny and Little nesting here. Nowhere near as spectacular but still lovely.
 
AJB Temple said:
Love owls. Great Photo Al. We have Tawny and Little nesting here. Nowhere near as spectacular but still lovely.
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We have both of them in the woods behind our house. I've seen a Tawny flying over once but never seen the Little Owl. We hear them both most nights.

Since you mentioned them, from the same place...

This is Rowan the Tawny Owl (sitting calmly on my arm looking very wise)

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This is Ozzy the Little Owl (little owls are the origin of the wise old owl concept), sitting on my arm looking thoroughly disapproving:

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My favourite owls are barn owls. I've seen them quartering the fields at the top of the hill in twilight before but it was nice to get to meet Guinevere close up (even if she did poo quite spectacularly all over my trousers!)

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