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Flying vole

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Posted by Neil Burton on January 12, 2012 at 10:18 AM
with a shorty attached! :rolleyes:

7D, 700mm, ISO800, some cropping.
Posted by John Robinson on January 12, 2012 at 10:28 AM
Good ! - especially the large version..
Never known a year like it for voles- crawling with them evrywhere.- hence the SEO's I suppse.
JR
Posted by Neil Burton on January 12, 2012 at 11:10 AM
John I was quite astounded. The Friday i took this was the only calm day for a week (the day before I left the country) and this particular bird caught 8 voles while I was watching. It would come down, spend 2 minutes presumably killing the vole then fly off to another spot for 1 minute then fly off with no vole. Due to the grass I cannot say if it ate them or not but cannot believe 8 voles+ would fit inside the owl, would love to know if it stored them or was playing cat and mouse with one vole over and over....but it definately landed in different spots. :confused:
Posted by keith mitchell on January 12, 2012 at 11:39 AM
Neil a great shot of this one,i'm amazed ! with the Vole population both this year and last.

Keith.
Posted by Phil Ellard on January 12, 2012 at 12:37 PM
Cracker :toast: :toast:
Posted by David Sewell on January 12, 2012 at 2:10 PM
Great shot, I love the look in the owl's eye.

David
Posted by Ian Haskell on January 12, 2012 at 3:08 PM
Ive seen quite a lot of the short eared owls this year photowise on forums....but not too many with voles! This pushes the shot up a level IMO.

Ian
Posted by Robert Lawrence on January 12, 2012 at 3:15 PM
A great flight capture and as already mentioned the addition of the vole certainly lifts this shot above the ordinary.
Posted by Barry Southon on January 12, 2012 at 4:08 PM
Neil

You can't beat it the vole makes the shot.
:wink:
Posted by Ian Mason on January 12, 2012 at 4:49 PM
Great shot indeed! I'm very envious :frown:
Posted by Nick Mckeown on January 12, 2012 at 5:32 PM
Superb image Neil as previous posts say the vole is the icing on an already great image. Light and BG is also a great compliment to the shot. Interesting comment about the number of voles caught. Any one got an answer?

Nick. :toast: :toast: :toast: :toast: :smile: :wavey:
Posted by Ian Macdermott on January 13, 2012 at 3:28 AM
Neil

superb shot, love the eye :smile:

Posted by Bob Johnson on January 13, 2012 at 4:03 AM
Super shot that has everything. I will settle for one like that over the weeknd :wink:

Bob :smile:
Posted by Neil Burton on January 13, 2012 at 5:44 AM
Good luck on that Bob.

Thanks all for the comments. :wavey:
Posted by Dave Bartlett on January 13, 2012 at 7:14 AM
Great image and brilliant to get one with a vole attached to it as well :toast:

Dave
Posted by Oscar Dewhurst on January 13, 2012 at 4:12 PM
Superb image Neil :toast: :toast:

Oscar :wavey:
Posted by Sandra Hendrikse on January 16, 2012 at 1:53 AM
Fantastic shot. :smile: :smile: