BARN OWL PHOTOGRAPHY | HOW TO CHOOSE A SUITABLE SITE | TIPS FOR SUCCESSFUL BIRD PHOTOGRAPHY PT 1
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- Опубліковано 27 лип 2024
- Welcome back,
Join me for more Bird photography as I check out a new suitable site to photograph the beautiful Barn Owl, showing you how to choose a location with some tips for successful photography. Pt 1 of 3.
Check out my recent Blog on Tips on Finding & Photographing Owls:
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0:00 Intro
4:58 Hunting Post Setup
10:03 Legal Notice ( Schedule 1 )
14:24 Barn Owl - Breeding Site
20:44 Summary - End
Thanks for watching,
All the best
Richard
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Good Weekend from Italy, Like 5 :)
Cheers Peri, all the best R 👍
the dog is man's best friend .. excellent video 😊📸📸👍
Thank you Minirado, they are indeed. All the very best Richard 👍
Omg how have I not found this channel yet
Hi Anna, thanks so much for finding me, hope you stick with me. All the best R 👍
Another great video. Really looking forward to the next instalment.
Cheers Steve, hopefully out soon. R 👍
Good day, Richard. I enjoyed the movie. Great production.
Interesting to see how you plan and work.
Have a great weekend, my good friend. Stay safe.
Kind regards, Knut.
Thanks Knut, really glad you enjoyed the Vlog, all the best you too. Regards Richard👍
Thank you. ◕‿◕
Another great informative vlog Richard. Anyone who wants to succeed in getting great images &/or video of Barn Owls needs to put in the time & effort. As you know I did a similar project to yours throughout the winter, & I learnt so much just by going out with binoculars & concealing myself away to observe their behaviour & learn their patterns. It really does pay off to do stuff like this, so good on you for putting out a vlog like this, a great watch & I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Really appreciate your kind words Nick, probably my most enjoyable Vlog to create and my obvious favourite bird! You are bang on the money about research and fieldcraft, it really does pay off. All the best R 👍
Very fortunate Richard to have such a great location so near to home sadly my regular N.R. as been closed for almost a year and local farmland rather sterile am looking forward to the next installment great to see a project right from the initial planning stages.👍
I really am Glenn, not sure what I'd do if I didn't have these areas to use especially during lockdown! That's a real shame that its closed! Thanks very much for watching, all the very best R 👍
Loads of good info there Richard, I was on a barn fire last week and there was a Barn Owl quartering in the farmers field as we were working. I was distracted to say the least!!😄 I 've had a lot of success with tying a nice looking post on to an existing fence line to try and pinpoint them onto a certain spot. Its surprising how they tend to go for the taller post. Looking forward to the next one , All the best Si 👍
Thanks mate, Nightmare on the Barn Fire! I bet it was such a distraction, hopefully nobody was hurt or the Barn Owl is now not homeless:-( I watched your videos on the Barneys and the Posts, some really good tips there too. Cheers mate, reducing my Vlogs now as weekly is getting too much, still got lots of projects now that the weather is hopefully getting a bit better. All your latest stuff mate is great and I can see the rewards are coming thick and fast! Good on you, totally deserved. All the best R 👍
Great insight into the Barn Owl and how to locate them. They are the most amazing birds so graceful and beautiful and can't wait to see what the series brings. They seemed to be fairly scarce around here last year but hoping they will return this year. Stay safe mate. Cheers Keith
Thanks Keith, they really are aren't they! I don't think I'd ever get bored of them! I remember you did a nice Vlog on them a while back, got some great shots if my memory serves me right! Fingers crossed they return for you. Thanks Richard 👍
@@RichardBirchett well remembered mate. Yes it was my first experience of seeing a Barn Owl in the wild and I was really buzzing! Look forward to seeing them again. Cheers Keith
Great video Richard looking forward to the series. Lovely Vizsla's, mines is 3...
Thanks very much indeed, hopefully Pt 2 out soonish! Great dogs aren't they! Bit bonkers at times though! lol.. Never seem to calm down! Thanks for watching. R 👍
Brilliant mate. Keep up the great vlogs mate.
Looking forward the the other vlogs. 👍
Cheers Craig, Owls are the best aren't they! all the best R 👍
That's a good point about them hunting elswear in winter and autumn months . But sometimes when you go further afield to look for your barn owl you can acidetly stumble on a second pair of barn owls.
Thanks Kevin, yes you often do and they can tolerate other Barn Owls near their territory. Cheers R 👍
Good info, looking forward to the next episodes 👍
Welcome Sue, and thanks very much for watching and for leaving me a comment. All the very best R 👍
Brilliant Richard, thankyou 👍
Thanks for watching Chris, enjoy your hols. All the best M👍
Nice video Richard - looking forward to the series 👍
Thanks Andy, hopefully Pt 2 out soon. All the very best Richard 👍
Nice to see something different looking forward to the rest 👍. I’m just in the process of of hunting out barns owls at the moment. Good work 👍
Cheers Jason, nice to vary things a little and not just bring the camera along! Best of luck with finding them, be great to see how you get on. Cheer Richard 👍
Excellent video Richard, I have a few barn owls in my local area and I’m definitely hoping to spend more time trying to photograph them this year. This was extremely useful, thank you! Sam
Hi Hannah, thanks very much for watching and leaving me a comment it's always appreciated. I really hope you get some luck with the Owls, they really are such a beautiful bird to watch and photograph, be interested to see how you get on, all the best Richard 👍
Looking forward to this series, realy enjoying these videos ,all the best Andy from Cumbria 📸👍
Hi Andy, thanks very much for watching and supporting the channel very much appreciated. All the best R 👍
Really great video Richard! I recently saw a barn owl hunting not too far from where I live, and this is just the video I've been needing for photography tips + more information on the barn owl! So thanks for that! Hope you're keeping well too :)
Hi Isaac, thats great news I wish you the best of luck, let me know how you get on. Very well thanks I hope you are too? All the best Richard 👍
Great Video I've been watching a pair of Barn Owls recently, and off tonight to look at a potential new location, Excited :)
Thanks very much, best of luck with them, really hope you get some success, let me know how you get on. Regards R 👍
Great video Richard very useful thank you 👍🏻👍🏻
Hi Steve, awesome mate thanks very much for watching👍
Great video thanks for sharing your knowledge!
My pleasure Jonathan, really glad you enjoyed it. Cheers Richard 👍
Thanks for the information about approaching land owners and for all the other great info in this video. You’re really helping to educate people new to wildlife photography. Thanks Richard.
Hi Stephen, my pleasure and thanks very much for saying and taking the time to comment, all the best Richard 👍
Good info, always been a target for me. Thanks 😎👍
Cheers Laurence, fingers crossed you get some success, let me know how you get on. R 👍
Excellent informative video
Thanks very much David. All the best Richard 👍
Superb! Can't wait for the next one :)
Thanks very much, hopefully Pt 2 out soon. Cheers Richard 👍
A very interesting and informative vlog.What a beautiful location too.The barn owl is certainly a pretty and ghostly looking bird but very photogenic.Not a photographer myself but found it a fascinating watch.Look forward to learning a lot more about the ins and outs of getting the lovely pictures you take.Alison.
Thanks Alison, its a wonderful spot and so close to my home! They really are and I never tire of seeing and photographing them, beautiful in every way! All the best and thanks for stopping by. Richard 👍
Good one my friend. like it.
Thanks very much for watching:-) R
Great to see places like that made for the wildlife! Looking forward to this series!
Thanks very much, got quite a bit to focus on so hopefully Pt 2 out soon. all the best R 👍
Hey Richard, I think this will be a great series. If this is the project you mentioned ... I can see how it will be a time consuming project. Though I think it will be well worth your time. I know I will be looking forward to seeing part 2. Sayin' hey... Greg
Hey Greg, fingers crossed it comes through as the weather has been shocking the last week or so! It does take time and the Vlogs will be slower coming but weekly was getting tough and I wanted to focus on more quality over quantity! You've been awesome Greg, all the best until next time. Richard 👍
Great video! Love how you covered surveying an area and the owl's habits. Can't wait for the rest of the series! Good luck and hope you get some great shots!
Cheers Billy, lovely little area I have to myself which is a bonus and disturbance is kept to a minimum! Hopefully Pt 2 out soon.... although weathers not looking great.. All the best R 👍
Great video great content . Looking forward to seeing the rest of the series. Well done Richard keep up the good work .
Hi Rob, thanks very much for watching and for leaving a comment. Hope to release Pt 2 very soon. Cheers Richard
Brilliant Richard!!!!!!! So glad I found your channel back a long ! Just love your field craft keeping the importance of your subject it’s welfare of interest first !! Great post as usual & look forward to this series on the Barn owl great idea to this ! Spot on ! Great sat viewing just brilliant! Take care friend!! 👍👍
Thanks very much, you are certainly one of my longest subscribers so its great you always follow me on my journey! Always keep in mind the subject and never at the expense of the subject, thanks again. Richard 👍
Very informative,, thanks for your time.
My pleasure Ray, thanks for watching and leaving me a comment. all the best Richard 😀👍
Hi Richard that was truly fantastic,the planing working out feeding times, where to look and hunting ground,I found it really interesting can’t wait for the next one, the detail you covered in this vlog was brilliant well done mate, some fantastic footage of the barn owl thank you for sharing your video.regards Martyn
Thanks Martyn, really great to have your feedback makes all the difference, hopefully a bit more to cover in Pt 2, all being well and weather permitting! its been shocking down in Cornwall.Thanks again Richard 👍
Another stunning blog credit to Richard keeping us all entertained at the moment , people like Richard deserve all the good credits and Praise they get, great work
What a great comment Neil thanks very much, it's been difficult getting out with Covid and the awful weather but I'll keep plugging at it! Thanks again, and all the best to you R 👍
Great info Richard, look forward to the rest of the series :-), keep up the good work, all the best from Scotland.
Great to have you following me and thanks very much for the comment and for watching. Going to have to check out Balgavies Ospreys for sure. all the very best from me. R 👍
@@RichardBirchett , if you are ever up this way from the end of March to the end of August (north east of Scotland), let me know and I can give you directions to see the ospreys ;-), (providing there are no lockdown restrictions in place still). All the best Richard ,-)
Great video Richard! Very useful, given me an idea to what to actually look for now.
Thanks Jake, nice to have you leave me a comment, really glad it's helped a bit. All the best R 👍
Great video Richard, really informative and hopefully be able to take some of that knowledge and track down some local owl locations now.
Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Hi Phil, thanks very much and I'm glad you found it useful, nice to leave the kit at home for a change! Best of luck locating you're Owls, be interested to see how you get on. All the best R 😀👍
Great, looking forward to the future videos, especially if it that sunny! Our Barn Owl returned this week, we hadn’t seen it for twelve months so I am hoping to get some pictures too. All the best.
Hi Richard, thanks my friend its rained and been so windy since! Fingers crossed I'll get out this week! Best of luck with locating you're Owls with some great shots at the end of it. Let me know how it goes. Cheers Richard 😀
Useful info, thanks
My pleasure Andrew, thanks for watching. Richard 👍
Outstanding! Thank you for sharing!
Thanks very much for watching, glad you enjoyed it. Cheers Richard 👍
@@RichardBirchett God save the king!
Awesome video, they are known as the grey ghost here in New Mexico 😁
Hi Andrew, thanks so much for that! Wow, what a name for an awesome Owl! So fitting as they really are! especially their call, very Ghostly.. All the best Richard 👍
Out on Salisbury plain this morning lucky to find a Barn owl straight away, cold and windy low light however first thing ! Very good to have your thoughts Richard 👍😍
Thanks very much, Salisbury is a great spot for Barn Owls I've seen a couple documentaries about them up there! Great place with lovely light, not good in bad weather mind. All the best R 👍
Another great vid with plenty of info,im in Devon and scouting possible sites at the moment,nothing yet.
Thanks Alan, really glad you enjoyed it! Fingers crossed you find them and get some great images, keep me posted on how you get on. Cheers Richard 👍
Nice video Richard, picked up a few tips and I have a field in mind that hasn't been under water! Now to catch the farmer👍 Looking forward to the rest of the series mate.
Cheers Scott, glad you picked up some tips there and best of luck with the Farmer! And with the water, its been really bad down in the SW! Apart from my Vlog day, lol.. Cheers R
Great video Richard, cracking morning and location. Excellent idea for a series of vlogs. Planning is everything isn't it?
Thanks Steve, it was an awesome morning! Been rain and wind since I filmed that! Cheers mate, will catch up on your HiKey soon. All the best Richard 👍
Good Stuff
Cheers Graham👍
Very much looking forward to this mini series, Richard! Perfectly timed too - I stumbled upon a Barn Owl hunting locally to me about 6-8 weeks ago and have been back to watch it numerous times since. I'm trying to get access to the land to gain a better vantage point but unfortunately think it will be difficult to have the farmer agree.
Hi Jack, thanks very much indeed nice to have your support on the channel. Thats great news about the Barn Owl, once they get you they are quite addictive, says me 35 years later still hooked on them! Best of luck, not all Farmers will be happy but fingers crossed you get some results, let me know how it goes. Richard 👍
@@RichardBirchett certainly are - I've been fortunate to have found 3 or 4 locations within a few miles of home over the last few years, but this latest one is a 10 minute stroll from my front door - a few weeks back I actually had one in the field that backs on to our garden and am now thinking it was probably the same one I've been watching since.
Unfortunately no luck with the farmer as yet - a shame because the margin that the owl tends to hunt down most of the time is on the far side of the field from which is too far off for any photos - either way it's great just to watch it hunt.
Just watched part 2 and picked up some more useful tips - particularly about them hunting in to the wind, which makes sense, but never really thought about before!
Awesome stuff Richard look forward to part two. Only ever seen one bar owl in the wild my self and no camera at hand 😒shame on me
Thanks Dean, hopefully there will be success at the end of it, lol.. You will be surprised they are probably closer than you think. Thats's always the way! Cheers R
What make/model trail cameras do you use? I’m thinking about get a few. Interesting blog about the Owls!
Thanks Ashelley, I use Bushnells Trophy Aggressor N0-GLOW cameras generally but I also use some cheaper ones off amazon just for areas away from my home in case they get taken, they are Victure Wildlife Trap Camera 20MP Night Vision Motion Activated. Hope that helps, regards Richard 👍
Iv noticed if it's to windy for them to fly .they will used the method of post and pounce huntting method.
Yep, quite often they will do that with hardly any wind and they love to cache food for bad weather days. Cheers R
This type of grass land is also brill for kestral and short eard owl
Prime habitat for sure, heading back to the same site for more Owl photography very soon. 👍
There is a field exactly like this where I live that has barn owls hunting regular . Only problem is it's rented land and ocasoinaly the grass is cut really short and made into bails
It's a shame when it's cut but fingers crossed they will have other fields to use??
@RICHARD BIRCHETT , when you say the field has been 'seeded', is that to provide grain for the voles to feed on and therefore increase their numbers OR is it a seed to encourage certain grass/plants to grow? Apologies if you explained this and I simply missed it but I'm wondering what chance I stand of trying to improve the habitat somewhere.
Hi Phil, no problem the farmer sowed a wild bird seed mix recommended by the RSPB for encouraging overwintering bird flocks to use on the 14 acres of fields. It was funded by a scheme called the Higher Level Stewardship (HLS) paid for by natural England to help the birds through the winter. I will find out the mix from the farmer if needed. Really works, thousands of linnets and other finches and species use the fields, amazing results! Helping voles and the owls and other birds of prey. R 👍
@@RichardBirchett , that's really helpful and great to know there is funding available too....makes chatting up a local farmer a bit easier if they won't be out of pocket!
Do the barn owls deal with rats on the farms or only smaller rodents?
Yes, they do take small rats and certainly help the farmers out. Thanks for watching. All the best Richard