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Looking for short-eared owls

Posted on 7 January 2014 Leave a Comment

Last week I tried to photograph short-eared owls at the famous location in Uitkerke at the Belgian coast. Thousands of people come here every winter to observe the owls hunting at dusk. If lucky, they start foraging before sunset. Which, again, wasn’t the case when I was there. Very pretty, nevertheless.

 

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“Aint had no peace in the farm yard Since my little red roosters been gone”

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Yes, this really is the famous Belgian Ramsar site for pink-footed geese

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Stoat hunting voles

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Sunset… Time for owls?

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This is the best I could do… meaning I will have to go back and finally get them in good light conditions.

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Foxes are eating common sea-buckthorn (duindoorn) berries, but do not seem capable of digesting them properly

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Huge rope washed ashore

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Sanderlings

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Winds were sand blasting both photographer and his topic. Nice how they really shut their eyes.

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Dunlin amongst the sanderlings

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Finally a close sanderling at 5m

Posted in: Dieren | Tagged: drieteenstrandloper, sanderling, uitkerke, uitkerkse polder, zwin

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