Tawny Owl Diary 2020
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 14 ก.ย. 2020
- This documentary film follows the development of a tawny owl chick from hatching until he is about 3 months old.
Just after the imposition of the Covid-19 lockdown, I discovered a Tawny Owl’s nest in my garden. This nest was not in a hollow tree; it was in an abandoned Grey Squirrel drey. Although this nest was 40 feet up the tree, it was visible from within the garden from various different angles. I decided to chronicle the early life and development of a Tawny Owl chick, and set up a camera and telephoto lens to record activity within the nest. Since tawny owls are a nocturnal species, I had to determine the best way to film the activity at night. I tried an infra-red capable camera, but the quality was just not good enough, and the telephoto was not powerful enough to obtain good footage. Tawny Owls have excellent night vision, but they cannot see red light very well. I purchased two red LED floodlights, and also a red wildlife LED torch. The lights were set up to illuminate the nest and switched on before night time so as to minimise disturbance. The owls were filmed every night, and it was apparent that they were not disturbed too much, becoming accustomed to my regular presence near the nest. The adults would come and go to the nest, flying right over my head to bring food to the chicks, even though I was not using any type of concealment.
When the surviving young owlet vacated the nest and took up residence in the neighbouring woodland, its regular call enabled me to follow its movements and carry on filming up until it was almost 3 months old. Because the young owlet was constantly on the move, I had to use the wildlife torch fitted to the top of the camera. Unfortunately, this created an unavoidable “red eye” effect. I lost track of the owlet on 15th July. Young owls have to leave their parents’ territory during late July/early August and fend for themselves and find an area where there are no resident pairs of tawny owls. Many young owls will starve during this hazardous period.
The cameras I used were a Sony A7S2, which has good low light capability, and a Sony A6400 as a secondary camera. Whilst filming with red light at night, I used a black and white picture profile. The lens used for the close up shots was a Sony FE 4.5 - 5.6/100 - 400 GM OSS with a 1.4X tele-converter. Ambient sounds were recorded using a Roland R-26 Portable 6 track recorder with an additional AT8024 mic set to “shotgun” mode, and mixed with Logic Pro X. Editing was done in Final Cut Pro and transitions made in Photoshop and Apple Motion. Lightwave was used for the “Windmill Video Films” sequence and the Diary opening and closing sequence. The Debussy pieces were midi files, processed with Logic Pro X. - ภาพยนตร์และแอนิเมชัน
What kind of human would dislike such a video?...this is an absolutely brilliant documentary!
Great job.
Kitten at clip's beginning is too cute and adorable too and good 🎶 suites clip
This is so amazing! Through your hard work & dedication, we are able to follow this beautiful family’s journey. Thank you so very much! I look forward to your other owl stories.
I was woken last night, not long before dawn, by my dog growling at a noise outside... I couldn't tell from indoors what kind of animal it was, but from my garden it seemed to be an owl screeching on my roof, and then another calling in the distance, the sounds very like those in your wonderful film.Thank you so much for making it.
Brilliant video, I live in The Old Guildford Road and regularly wake up to hear Owl calls.
Matt, thanks for the comment. Those owls you hear may be the same pair from the film as their territory seems to include most of the woodland between you and me.
@@kevinmccullen1 Thanks for the reply Kevin, I go through periods when I hear them every night then it can go quiet for a month or so but there was one very close to the house over the weekend. We also have a pair of kites which have raised young for the last 2 years, the battles above the house with the local crows can be pretty spectacular. Then we have all the Swallows returning each year to nest in the stables next door, this year they were all over our garden looking for suitable nesting at times flying in through the house when all the doors were open. All the best Matt
Wow... it is a very beautiful story about tawny owls.. it looks really professional and you have a pleasant voice! I can feel your love for nature and animals... thank you very much for sharing your experience with us!
🦉What a lovely story. Can't wait for the next one. Put up an owl box Kevin.🦉
That was absolutely brilliant - so insightful. We have an owl box that Tawney owls use to raise their young but to see what is happening time-wise on your video is precious! Thank you 😊
This is the best video I have seen locally since I have lived in Deepcut since 2003; Absolutely brilliant
Thank you Paul, and all of you for your kind comments. I'll see what happens next year with my nest box which is being fitted with tiny cameras... ...just in case!
@@kevinmccullen1 I am very excited to see that
Great video. I have studied birds for 20 years now and I followed a tawny owl family this year, 2020, 300 meters from my house. 2 chicks made it in a very similar pattern as the one in the video. They both were gone in late july. Fantastic video. Thank you! / Andreas
fantastic - thank you - I have been observing an adult tawny owl these past 3 weeks and have yet to locate the owlets - amazing insight into their behaviour. . . my search continues but I'm in the right area and do not want to disturb them too much.
Fabulous diary 📔 congratulations 👏 new subscriber
Thankyou for your effort to make this video
This is beautiful! Thank you for making and sharing it!
awesome work... really interesting!
Absolutely brilliant and extremely professional 😁👍
A beautiful story
Thank you
Brilliant.
Thank you so much for sharing this video and for all the time and effort you went to to capture this. So interesting and so beautifully produced. I live nearby and am amazed at what is going on around the area without most of us even noticing ! Please make another one !!
What an awesome film, thank you soo much for sharing that with us.
What a lovely video .
Thank you for sharing.
Fantastic video
This is great.
This was very interesting. Sad the other owlette did not make it.
You did a good job Dad
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