{"id":2054832,"date":"2018-12-19T18:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/?guid=6682f0490fcf964158065e6f582d6237"},"modified":"2019-12-23T01:38:48","modified_gmt":"2019-12-22T12:38:48","slug":"more-pygmy-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/more-pygmy-owls\/","title":{"rendered":"More Pygmy Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"

This blog is at risk of becoming Simon\u2019s Pygmy Owl blog, but this is the time of year when they are relatively easy to find and they are a great bird! My birding day started with the Maridalen bird but he was sat quite high up and soon flew to other side of a large field so I didn\u2019t get any great shots of him. After seeing the Marsh Tit at the feeders I then headed for Pollevannet.<\/p>\n

Marsh and Long-tailed Tits made themselves known in bushes in the reedbed but Bearded Tits stayed quiet. I then came across a photographer who I thought was taking a picture of something a long way out in the reedbed so I assumed he had found the Beardies. When I went up to him though it became clear he was photographing something in the bush just 5 metres away and there was another Pygmy Owl!<\/p>\n

And at eye level!! I really wish I had had my tripod with me but had to make the best of hand holding in poor light conditions. The background was also a bit messy but it was so cool to be so close to this little predator as he looked for food on the ground beneath him. He stayed there for quite a while before flying nearly through my legs and off into a small wood. An unforgettable experience!<\/p>\n

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Pygmy Owl (spurveugle)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

After this I heard at least one Water Rail calling in the reedbed and eventually also heard a couple of Beardies but never had a chance of seeing them. The Kingfisher was also in his regular place, so a pretty good days birding was had!<\/p>\n

I checked out the fjord at Dr\u00f8bak but there were few birds. A pod of 4 cetaceans heading purposefully north may have been porpoises but I really felt they were too large although they were very dark on the back and the dorsal fin was small.<\/p>\n

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And the Maridalen bird was a bit less photogenic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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but this shot wasn’t too bad<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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and the Maridalen Marsh Tit (l\u00f8vmeis) which has already been twitched.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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This blog is at risk of becoming Simon\u2019s Pygmy Owl blog, but this is the time of year when they are relatively easy to find and they are a great bird! My birding day started with the Maridalen bird but he was sat quite high up and soon flew to other side of a large […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1905,"featured_media":2149128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6984,5],"tags":[8769,7787,2177,2179,8510,5973],"class_list":["post-2054832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blogs","category-wildlife","tag-bearded-tit","tag-kingfisher","tag-long-tailed-tit","tag-marsh-tit","tag-pygmy-owl","tag-water-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1905"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2054832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2054832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2149128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2054832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2054832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/focusingonwildlife.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2054832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}