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Pearl-spotted Owlet, (Explored) Glaucidium perlatum, Bucklands Farm, Turk Mine, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

Pearl-spotted Owlet, (Explored) Glaucidium perlatum, Bucklands Farm, Turk Mine, Matabeleland, Zimbabwe

            I've found several Pearl Spotted Owlet nests in my time but never one that is so low that I could almost look right into from the height of my tripod. This one was a little over 2 metres from the ground. Unfortunately last season I missed this pair feeding young at the nest because by the time I arrived in Zimbabwe there were three young Owlets flying near the nest site. This year, as in the picture the pair had only just laid eggs so I didn't get too close. They nest in a different hole in a grove of trees a few metres from the house and where all the cars park so they are used to people walking about all day and not overly bothered.
 I was photographing a pair of Crested Barbets (pictures to follow in coming weeks) that were feeding young in a hole about 8 metres away from the Owl nest. This Barbet nest was 1.7 metres off the ground so also very low. At one point I was focussed on the Barbet in the tree and noticed something land on its head. There was a Pearl Spotted Owlet in the same tree above the Barbet and it had eaten half of a Rattling Cisticola which it then dropped, hitting the bemused Barbet. I wish I'd been filming the whole thing.
 The pearl-spotted owlet is an owl that breeds in Africa south of the Sahara. This species is a part of the larger grouping of owls known as typical owls, Strigidae, which contains most species of owl. The other grouping is the barn owls, Tytonidae. Wikipedia
   

Taken in: Zimbabwe / Matabeleland North / Queens Mine (show map)

Taken on: November 27, 2015

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