Sunday, April 19, 2009

Powerful Owl - Ninox Strenua


For several months of every year if you are awake in the early hours of the morning, the powerful owl of Retreat Reserve can be heard calling, and sometimes swooping through the gully with that quiet swish. Recently one of our former residents who had grown up in the gully came back and walked through the reserve looking for the roosting spot of the powerful owl, and this photograph is the result. Handsome, young, and deadly...I think you will agree. Watch out possums and bush rats.

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