Barn Owl Low Hunt — English Fenland
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A barn owl photographed in low hunting flight over Lincolnshire fenland at dusk — the ghost-white predator quartering the reed beds 2 metres above the ground.
Description
The barn owl (Tyto alba) hunts by flying low over grassland and fenland margins in the characteristic slow, buoyant quartering flight — the heart-shaped facial disc acting as a parabolic sound collector that locates prey by hearing alone in darkness. This photograph was made at a Lincolnshire fenland site during the early evening hunting flight — the bird photographed against the dusk sky at 10m range using a 500mm lens, the white underparts illuminated by the last of the western skylight while the surrounding landscape is in pre-night shadow. The moth-like flight silhouette of the barn owl against the darkening fenland sky is one of the defining wildlife images of the English countryside.
