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Kestrel meets barn owl
A friend in Britain passed this along — a news item and photos on a kestrel highjacking a vole from a barn owl. Definitely worth a look.
The link has only one photo; the newspaper itself had the entire sequence. It’s grainier but amazing… The files are a bit large, so be forewarned.
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