From Daniela Fricke
My highlight of 2024
On my morning walk with my dog at the beginning of November, I passed rowdy jays and magpies. Since it is in the hawks’ territory, I thought they hated the hawk again, but then I looked anyway to see if I could see the hawk.
I looked up into the tree and immediately into the bright orange eyes of the eagle owl. Never in my wishes or imagination would I have thought I would ever meet an eagle owl here.
The bleating of the jays and magpies then attracted the attention of the carrion crows. Around 30 crows then arrived and hated the eagle owl. I felt quite sorry for the eagle owl, he just wanted to spend the day dozing somewhere in peace and now had 30 carrion crows on his cheek.
In the meantime, even the hawk came by to bleat. It was quite a spectacle all day. Simply an unforgettable experience.
It was also interesting to see that as soon as the eagle owl moved even slightly, all the crows flew up, about 100m away and then flew back to it. They had extreme respect for the eagle owl.
Since the entire area would be an ideal territory for the eagle owl, I can well imagine that it settled there, even though I haven’t seen it again to this day. But it will certainly have learned to retreat to rest during the day in a better camouflaged way.
EOS R5, RF 200-800mm, 800mm, f/9, ISO 4,000, 1/500 sec., FH
Original German Post Text
Mein Highlight 2024 Auf meiner Morgenrunde, Anfang November, mit meinem Hund, kam ich an pöbelnden Eichelhähern und Elstern vorbei, da es im Revier der Habichte ist, dachte ich noch, sie hassen mal wieder den Habicht, schaute dann jedoch trotzdem ob ich den Habicht sehe. Schaut hoch in den Baum und sofort in die leuchten orangenen Augen des Uhus. Niemals in meinen Wünschen oder Vorstellungen hätte ich je gedacht jemals hier auf einen Uhu zu treffen. Durch das gemecker der Eichelhäher und Elstern, wurden dann noch die Rabenkrähen aufmerksam. Rund 30 Krähen trafen dann auch noch ein und hassten den Uhu. Der Uhu tat mir schon ziemlich leid, er wollte nur in Ruhe den Tag irgendwo dösen und hatte nun 30 Rabenkrähen an der Backe. Zwischenzeitlich kam dann selbst noch der Habicht vorbei um zu meckern. Es war ein ziemliches Spektakel den ganzen Tag. Einfach ein unvergessliches Erlebnis. Interessant auch zu sehen, sobald der Uhu sich nur mal minimal bewegte, flogen alle Krähen auf, ca. 100m weg um dann wieder zu ihm zu fliegen, sie hatten extremen Respekt vor dem Uhu. Da das gesamte Gebiet optimal auch ein Revier für den Uhu wäre, kann ich mir gut vorstellen, das er sich dort niedergelassen hat, auch wenn ich ihn bis heute nicht wieder gesehen habe. Er wird aber sicher auch gelernt haben, sich besser getarnt Zur Tagesruhe zurück zu ziehen.
I feel for the owl but this is the first thing it made me think of…
Lol such is owl life 😂
Poor owl. I feel for him from the story.
The photo is a pretty cool shot. Like that owl is so done with all these other birds.
I hope all worked out well for the owl. It must be tough to find a place that doesn’t already being to someone.
this is pretty awesome. that owl looks fiercly determined to stay where he is at.
It is fantasizing about revenge! It’s even bigger than the Great Horned that beat up the Bald Eagles in that recent post!
Great photo and text!
Would make a great meme format.
Hawk: Pharmacy lunchtime closing
Owl: Me, one-car-back in the drive-thru
Getting these things translated is fun. The built in Facebook translate is terrible. Google gets me close enough that I can use context and more granular translation to have it make sense.
Very cool pic too, even if the owl is getting harassed.
Bien!