A barn owl taking flight at the top of Wharfedale, by Jamie Pickles
MANY thanks to Jamie Pickles, of Threshfield for this wonderful picture taken over the weekend of a barn own in flight at the top of Wharfedale.
The RSPB says barn owls are mainly nocturnal, but may hunt before dusk and around dawn when feeding young, and in daylight in winter.
They primarily eat rodents, especially short-tailed voles, followed by wood mice and brown rats.
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