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This evening I happend to step outside just at the time to see the female barn owl flying towards me. About 15 yards from me she dived into long grass in the field. She didn't reappear immediately, which suggested that she had caught some prey and did not need to continue the hunt. She rose a minute or two later and flew back to the nestbox.

I didn't have a camera with me to catch the dive, but a camera at the box recorded a nice sequence of her landing.

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