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AROMATIC PYGMY OWL 🦉
Today we will take a closer look at one of the moments from the pre-Christmas video "Wild Czechia 2023" ( • Wild Czechia - My Best... ) - the Eurasian pygmy owl covered in flies.
Among the comments I found a question how one manages to capture such a shot in nature and why flies are actually crawling on the owl. The answer is not complicated.
The footage shows a mother owl resting near the nest cavity with her three chicks inside. The male, meanwhile, is hunting in the area and continually bringing food to the young - mainly tits, finches, and voles. The female takes the catches from him, carries them to the cavity and tears the food into pieces for the little ones. Although she regularly cleans the nest and throws out dirt, the inside of the cavity is still a rather sticky and smelly place full of dried blood and chunks of meat. It all sticks to the female's feathers... and the flies can smell it very well.
An owl covered in insects may look like an unusual catch, but it is actually quite common when filming at the nest cavity 🙂
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✿ Species
Eurasian pygmy owl (Glaucidium passerinum)
✿ Location and date
South Moravia, Czechia | May 2023
✿ Equipment
Panasonic GH6
Metabones T Smart
Sigma 60-600
Zoom F3
Sennheiser MKE 600
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