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    WILD MONTH

    Sep 24, 2020 3 minutes
    By Ben Hoare

    1 | TAWNY OWL

    Dusk drama

    Anyone wanting to hear a tawny owl – or perhaps glimpse its shadowy form silhouetted against the last scrap of daylight – should go for a stroll on a pleasant autumn evening. October and November is when these ethereal birds really make their presence felt. They’re our most abundant owls, found even in suburbia and city parks, though absent from the island of Ireland. Youngsters that fledged in spring are now searching for territories of their own, seriously ruffling the feathers

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