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    Not something you see every night

    Pics a crap but had limited time to shoot a few shots off.

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    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
    Rule 2: Always point firearms in a safe direction
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    Ruru!

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    Better than hares legs!

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    KFC on the hoof
    Real guns start with the number 3 or bigger and make two holes, one in and one out

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    Quote Originally Posted by Gibo View Post
    Ruru!

    Yep morepork
    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
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    Quote Originally Posted by Dundee View Post
    Yep morepork
    Did it taste like pork Dundee??

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    Cool wee birds those. I had one land on my rifle barrel when scoping out a clearing a couple of weeks ago. Not sure who shat himself first, him or me
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    Nice lucky pics Dundee you don't see a lot of those for sure. We saved one years back he overslept in the shed then got all dopey and flew into a wall Box for the day then released at night he happy as. That's the only one I ve seen close up ever next to your one therE.
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    Yes bit of a shame about the quality of the pics,zooming in probably not the best idea but it only sat there for a few seconds.

    Gibo more like chicken
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    I got witching a couple of meters of one. He was sitting to a fence post and I had him in the spotlight.
    He kept trying to look around the light but I got right up to him before he realised how close I was and buggered off. Cool looking birds.

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    This is not a Morepork but a NZ little Owl. I found it in my daughters house, not sure if the cat had brought it in and it may have had injury's. I made a temporary cage to observe it.We kept it for one night and it was fine so released it the next night.What a neat little bird and only the second one I had seen.

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    We get a few morepork out our way. Comes into the trees near the house so I get the spotty out and scare the sparrows out of the trees which he then quickly devours. Amazing the size of a meal they swallow whole

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    I come back from spot lighting rabbits on my mates place just parked the bike in the shed then where standing around the car while our dads where talking shit and one chased a sparrow into the shed. after a while it came out sat in the tree and waited for it to leave.
    VIVA LA HOWA

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    They have softer feathers on their wing leading edges so when they fly past you can hardly hear them

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    There are heaps of owls round my house. We have the last of the old man pines which they love. Most land round here is dairy so all the trees are gone, and what trees are around are poplars and eucalypts which make lousy habitat.

    I see an owl or two most evenings and you can always hear them. Heading out now so I might see one. Common to see them sitting out quietly in the pines in daytime, they actually seem to like a bit of sun and are very tame. Need to get out with the camera and the binos and try take some photos.

    The big old man pines are shelter belts around a whole lot of little paddocks above the house. The are habitat for all sorts of stuff. Blue herons, owls, even the odd New Zealand Falcon makes an appearance. They are scheduled for logging
    Nows the time to protest Tussock
    "Thats not a knife, this is a knife"
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