This barn owl -Tyto alba - kept looking for the right place to land.
The wingspan in a little backlight gives a beautiful transcription of the wings and plumage.
Barn owls come in a variety of colours.
Here a rather light specimen, an old bird.
Even these birds of prey that are quite active at night (dark) hours can still be encountered regularly during the day.
The barn owl is a low-flying bird.
Almost silently, the barn owl glides over fields and meadows, reed beds and so on.
They prefer to breed in old barns, lofts of churches etc., a flat place, among the pellets the eggs are laid and hatched there.
Sometimes barn owls can also be found nesting in haystacks.
They hunt mainly from low poles, hectometric poles, poles used as field boundaries, etc.
When darkness falls, I regularly see them gliding by.
Impressive birds, I love to see them!
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