Real Owls in ED / Peck Rye?

[Mrs TP]

Bit random but was thinking to myself last night I never hear owls in London. I grew up on the border of Liverpool / Lancashire and much as our area was relatively built up extensive farmland was just a mile or so away and there were loads of Tawny Owls. At a certain times of night there would be two clearly perched on a tree in our garden and they were a regular feature but I have never seen any in London.

Does anyone ever see / hear them around here? Surely there are some in Dul Park, Peck Rye?

[Alex K]

To my regret, a search by "owl" doesn't identify a post here some years ago -- a foundling owl, huddled in a cardboard box, was shown -- but yes, they are here.

[Blackcurrant]

There are tawny owls in Dulwich Wood and Sydenham Hill and little owls in Greendale, Belair Park and probably other green spaces.

[fl0wer]

As luck would have it I have been hearing owls all this week along Underhill Rd, around sunset.

The sound is from our rooftops where I think one perches to spot rodents who gather beneath overflowing bird feeders in the back gardens.

http://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/gardening-blog/2014/jan/18/alys-fowler-gardening-living-with-rats

[glenfruin]

This is interesting as I was awake in the night recently and I thought I could hear an owl call and we live near to Nunhead cemetery and Peckham Rye Park.

[wee quinnie]

I hear an owl quite regularly - I'm in the vicinity of goodrich school.

[DulwichFox]

Alex K Wrote:

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> To my regret, a search by "owl" doesn't identify a

> post here some years ago -- a foundling owl,

> huddled in a cardboard box, was shown -- but yes,

> they are here.

Just for reference .. You cannot do a 3 letter search here. Search owl* and you will find all the

refernces to owl.

DulwichFox

[SkyofFire]

I think they're intimidated by those foreign green birds who've come over here and taken over our town. I suspect most of our owls are now in Spain, where they read the Daily Mail and complain about the natives.

[DulwichFox]

http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab167/mickdavies83/owl_Protect_zpsc9cbb53c.jpg

Owl photo by DulwichFox. Hastings 08 October 2006.

DulwichFox

[dimples]

I do know that the park keeper in peckham rye has seen a tawny owl a few times and even a little owl on the rye ! Also I know there are owls in the cemetery .

[fl0wer]

Good reason to keep up the pressure on Councils to mow less, wherever possible.

Owls NEED wide areas of rough grassland to hunt across, because the clumps harbour small mammals.

[Mrs TP]

All v encouraging, thanks guys n gals. I still miss Tawny screeches and stare longingly at our empty Bellenden trees at night, which are full of those green parakeets by day ...

[hpsaucey]

Hi there Mrs TP,

Might be worthwhile going along to one of the Dawn Chorus bird walks usually on later in the year - Peckham Rye Park/One Tree Hill and other places. I took my son along and we couldn't believe just how many types of bird are actually living in Peckham Rye Park.

H

[sanity girl]

I live near North Dulwich station and hear owls in the night - going on five years now

[Dopamine1979]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> http://i860.photobucket.com/albums/ab167/mickdavie

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> Owl photo by DulwichFox. Hastings 08 October

> 2006.

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> DulwichFox

That's an impressive shot.

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[tiger ranks]

we hear owls in Nunhead cemetery quite often

[Sue]

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Was it on a perch at a show or a zoo, Foxy?? ;)

[evildrwallace]

I hadn't seen this thread so I posted the below on a new thread this morning:

For the last few days I've been hearing what I can only assume is an owl around the gardens at the back of our house in Upland Rd. Mostly at night but sometimes quite early evening. We heard a tawny owl quite often last year but this sounds different - three short barks, quite doglike, repeated at 30 sec or so intervals. At first I thought it was a fox but the call is always the same and moves too quickly for a fox. I will try to record it over the next couple of days.

[Nigello]

Evil...I go to work very early and heard something very similar, or at least something I could not quite place, two days ago. It was like a loud knocking but way to forceful for a woodpecker, spaced half-a-minute apart. I live opposite Goodrich School, near to Dunstan's Road.

[wee quinnie]

That sounds like the same thing, Nigello, and I am just between Goodrich and Crebor, so very near you. I have tried identifying it on the RSPB website and similar but, so far, the only thing I can find that sounds like it is an Australian Barking owl. I will try to make a recording and post it here to see if anyone can tell us what it is.

[wee quinnie]

Just realised that I posted as "weequinnie", 'cause I'm on my wife's computer. Ooops.

Evildrwallace

[DulwichFox]

Sue Wrote:

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> Was it on a perch at a show or a zoo, Foxy?? ;)

It was a Rescue Owl on Display in Hastings by a bird protection society.

It was the way the thing was looking at me.. with it's right ear cocked.

Nikon D200 70-200mm f2.8

Foxy

[Sue]

DulwichFox Wrote:

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> > Was it on a perch at a show or a zoo, Foxy??

> ;)

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> It was a Rescue Owl on Display in Hastings by a

> bird protection society.

> It was the way the thing was looking at me.. with

> it's right ear cocked.

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> Nikon D200 70-200mm f2.8

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> Foxy

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Had you upset it in some way? :))

Edited to correct smiley from :D to :)), how sad is that :)

[DulwichFox]

Sue Wrote:

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> > > Was it on a perch at a show or a zoo, Foxy??

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> > It was a Rescue Owl on Display in Hastings by a

> > bird protection society.

> > It was the way the thing was looking at me..

> with

> > it's right ear cocked.

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> > Nikon D200 70-200mm f2.8

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Had you upset it in some way? :))

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> Edited to correct smiley from :D to :)), how sad

> is that :)

I was about 10ft away.. The Owl may of been able to see his reflection in the lens.

In the original (uncompressed) picture printed on A3, You can clearly see my reflection in the creatures left eye.

Pic. here is compressed but still shows good definition (See Feathers)

Nikon Lenses. :)

Foxes

[jamesb]

There was just an owl like hoot coming from the gardens behind Hillcourt Road & Overhill Road. Couldn't see the source unfortunately. I wonder!