After what seems to be months of continuous rain and bad weather coupled with a very poorly dog that needed an operation my photography has been patchy to say the least so far this year. I have been trying a few different types of photography inc. Portrait which at least I could do indoors.

The field and woods where I photograph both barn and Tawny owls has been saturated for months and even walking down there has been at times treacherous. Finally we have had some frosty mornings and a week of dry weather so the fields are now beginning to finally dry out. With this dry spell I decided to try for Barn Owls again, only this time shots of them in flight. Two night ago I went down and within literally seconds of being in my hide one flew out of one of the buildings and perched on my flashgun, after a few minutes it flew off and landed on my camera lens, which was set up outside the hide as i had a wireless remote shutter attached. When the bird did fly up and the shutter pressed the flashgun never went off (stupidly I had set it wrong and it had gone to sleep)

Not to be deterred I returned both last night and again tonight and this time came away with an image from both nights. Wont be long before I leave them to it as Im sure they are about to raise another family as I heard the continuous shrieking and hissing sounds they made last year just prior to laying.