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Author:  Terence Whalin [ Thu Feb 16, 2012 11:42 pm ]
Post subject:  tawny owl
travelling home from a few days at my daughters in nottingham last wk between market rasen and binbrook. the stretch of road binbrook side of tealby on the bad twisty bit i saw a tawny owl fly up off the road to perch above the road, the bird was clearly feeding on a dead rabbit, well squashed. never heard or seen this before. always thought owls fed on live prey only has anyone else ever witnessed this before ????. :shock: :shock:

terry whalin :D :wink:
Author:  Nick Clayton [ Fri Feb 17, 2012 6:57 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: tawny owl
British Birds Volume 38 1944 P.56

TAWNY OWL TAKING CARRION.
ON April 24th, 1943, I found a nest of three young Tawny Owls
(Strix aluco sylvatica) in a hollow ash tree in Lincolnshire.
A number of pellets found at the nest contained the fur and bones
of small mammals, but two consisted entirely of lamb's wool
indicating that the parent birds had been feeding on a carcase.
Since then, a local gamekeeper has informed me that he has, on
several occasions, found Tawny Owls in his traps baited for rats with
the viscera of rabbits. E. L. ROBERTS.
Author:  Terence Whalin [ Sun Feb 19, 2012 12:51 pm ]
Post subject:  Re: tawny owl
that is new info for me, ta much :D :D

terry whalin :D :wink:
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