{"id":3107,"date":"2014-06-20T09:23:39","date_gmt":"2014-06-20T09:23:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/Blog\/?p=3107"},"modified":"2014-06-04T16:25:34","modified_gmt":"2014-06-04T16:25:34","slug":"photographing-barn-owls-at-oxwich-bay-nnr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/?p=3107","title":{"rendered":"Photographing Barn Owls at Oxwich Bay NNR"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC2035.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3098\" title=\"Barn Owl hunting over Oxwich NNR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC2035.jpg\" alt=\"Oxwich Bay20130325_DSC2035\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC2035.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC2035-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC2035-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve had quite a few sightings recently of Barn Owls around Gower. One came within 3 metres of me when I was walking along the edge of a woodland. Typically all my sightings were either long distance or when it was too dark to make some images. I have spent quite a bit of time in the hide at Oxwich NNR?trying to?sound record the wildfowl at this time of year, especially the Little Grebes, so I was pleasantly surprised to see a Barn Owl hunting in front of the hide and just about within range of my camera. It was quite dark, so with ISO1600 set and a shutter speed of 1\/100th of a second, I thought I would gve it a go. Most of the images were rubbish, but about three are useable, the best of which is above. It is not a prize winner in any shape or form, but it is my first of a Barn Owl on Gower so it means a lot to me, especially as the days I had all the photo gear to hand it didn&#8217;t appear and I was using what was in my sound recording bag.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC3226.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3099\" title=\"The hide at Oxwich NNR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC3226.jpg\" alt=\"Oxwich Bay20130325_DSC3226\" width=\"600\" height=\"399\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC3226.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC3226-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC3226-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>When I left the hide another Barn Owl flew past me, heading out over the dunes. No chance of any photos as it was finally getting too dark for me to make photographs, but nice to see that there was more than one Barn owl about. Now I just need to to see them when out and about with the telephoto lens and coming close enough for a few pictures.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC1987.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-3097\" title=\"In the reeds, Oxwich NNR\" src=\"http:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC1987.jpg\" alt=\"Oxwich Bay20130325_DSC1987\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC1987.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC1987-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/Oxwich-Bay20130325_DSC1987-400x266.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve had quite a few sightings recently of Barn Owls around Gower. One came within 3 metres of me when I was walking along the edge of a woodland. Typically&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11,4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3107"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4147,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3107\/revisions\/4147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gowerphotography.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}