Short Eared Owl on the hunt for dinner

After making a kill short-eared owl checks area before swallowing prey whole. Unfortunately he did so facing away from me.

Heavy crop

The only Seo i saw this morning but what a lovely bird , showing very well at times , it was hunting for over an hour in front of me but failed to catch anything.

...Early evening, hunting the fence line.

Short Eared Owls on the East coast of Yorkshire

SEO, Bowland, Lancashire

Some distance off but marvellous pleasure to see at Burwell Fen today

SEO.

Short Eared Owl - Bempton Cliffs

These birds float effortlessly above the meadows in search of prey🐀

New Years Day

Cropped only from landscape to portrait.

Somerset.

A very pleasant couple of hours were spent in the company of Patrick Hawkins , Geoff Holland , and Simon Dibble at Steart this afternoon where this lovely SEO was giving us a right run around , eventually in the last throes of light we managed to get some half decent shots.

Short Eared Owl - Bempton Cliffs

Two Short-eared owls high in the sky, one chasing the other away.

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Caught this SEO at Sandwich Bay near Dickson's corner this morning. It hadn't noticed me at this point, it was concentrating on something to eat... `it was raining too..

We went looking for Shorties, but only saw this one. Just my luck. Better than none though!

Ruffling the feathers, taken on Skomer Island.

A laying on your belly kind of shot.

Short Eared Owl

Another somewhat distant shot from my visit to Berryhill Fields on Friday. It was some distance away from me here but it was great how it kept looking across to the other side of the field where I was standing, just to check that I was not getting any closer.

Sadly it didn't catch anything while I was watching and it moved on to a different field where I left it alone to hunt in peace.

Short Eared Owl - Bempton Cliffs

Short Eared Owl on Humber margins, East Yorkshire.

Received this pack from Seo/PiffWeed today. Thanks a lot dude. I really like it, nice colors. Appreciated it!

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One from yesterday.

Still not the close encounter I crave...but there's always next time.

Short-eared owl at The Great Fen, Cambs

From Steart in the late afternoon sun .

This male Shortie is a stunning example of a healthy hunter. He later caught a nice sized vole.

Thanks for looking.

more distant but liked this one

Managed to connect with a few Short-eared Owls yesterday... Here are a few images.