What a perfect location -- you both clearly do your research very well, but how come no one else found the place? Well done also on the excellent footage that revealed much about the birds behavioural patterns. I must add that the video was edited to a perfect length to maintain interest throughout. Thank you once again for sharing your experiences with us.

Love the closeups! I did not know owls 'clap' their wings! They are beautiful birds, we have SO many red kites up near us. You are a complete natural infront of the camera (and very funny bloopers)

Found your channel by accident but I’m glad I did. Anyone with an enthusiasm and love for nature is good in my book, it’s infectious, thank for sharing.

That was great, some excellent shots ....... love your style of presentation ..... an obvious love and enthusiasm for what you do.

Soo wholesome and pure. This is lovely Josie 🫶🏻 lots of love x

You can see these "struggles" almost always, when there is more than one specimen at the same spot. I would rather say that they are playing and improving their skills. SEOs never show any aggression to each other. At least I have never ever seen it. They are polite 🙂 Very nice footage of these beautiful birds by the way!

Great channel, love your enthusiasm. Am looking forward to more videos and sightings....

Very cool! Thanks for taking me along!

A very good insight into short eared owl's. Grassland and unkempt. Shrub is a key habitat for these species unfortunately with over development of these areas the owl lives in the margins of survival, also a key specie's for volves and shrews which are important also. Some time's heavy rain fall can flood areas like the one featured in this video which can disimate volve populations which are prey species for the owls and raptors.great photography thankyou

Beautiful flying owls. Great video.

Excellent, your love for the craft is obvious.

I was so excited to see you two have posted a new video! It’s a joy to go on this journey with you. I felt I was there as the video is very immersive. I enjoyed Josie’s idea of seeing the five UK owls. I’ve seen a Tawny Owl fly in a nearby field in my corner of Scotland (near Dumfries). Such majestic animals!

Hi both very nice to see owls thank you.

Very nice, thanks for sharing ❤

I'm really glad, KZfaq suggested the Channel to me. I really enjoyed your video and your commentary, knowledge, love for nature. Looking forward to watching your other videos!

Hi Josie & Sophie. I guess we are lucky here in Norfolk to have a good variety of owls, especially the short ear owls that hunt on the marsh land up here, good luck in getting all your owls. 😎

Lovely film! We used to go there often when we lived in London as it was one of the best places for SEOs (obviously) in winter, but also good for Barn Owl, Hobby, Redstart, Dartford Warbler, Stonechat, Whinchat, Kingfisher and Cuckoo. We saw a Barred Warbler there one autumn too. I'm also trying to get all the owl species this year and managed to get three species in one day on Sheppey a couple of weekends back, including my first ever LEO in the UK (my favourite bird - I'd only ever seen them abroad before). Plenty of SEOs were there and a Barn Owl, but the Little Owl stayed hidden for us so we still need to get that and a Tawny.

Brilliant video really enjoyed it thank you 👍

Great work. Beautiful.

Great work getting all of those shots. Especially the wing clap. About 5 years ago, the short-eared owl population here in northern Utah experienced a healthy breeding season. One day, while out birding near Golden Spike NHP, I had roughly two dozen sightings of these incredible birds. Look forward to the next vid.

Best of Luck Josie and Sophie. Nice video and its first time i have every seen the short ear owl. Thank you so much.

Amazing. I saw and photographed my first short eared owls earlier this month. They are such amazing birds

So nice to stumble across your channel. Beautiful work 👏

It is Short Eared Owl season here in the Puget Sound area of Washington State, USA. I have been trying to get the location they like to hang out every weekend. The area is 105 miles north of where I live so it isn't practical to go there during the week when I am working. I have not seen the wing clap but I have some good interaction pictures with Northern Harriers and some rather close calls with Bald Eagles. I have seen Great Horned Owls, Barn Owls, Short Eared Owls, and Barred Owls in the wild in the last few years.

Such a natural presenter and narration voice. Great video!

Great footage of the Shorties with a bonus Red Kite. Nice to meet you both briefly on my home patch yesterday.

Awesome footage! That Red Kite was gorgeous! Thanks for sharing this video! Ya'll are killing it right now! Keep it up!

Awesome stuff! Short eared owls are one of my favorite owls. Iconic grassland species.

very nice, thanks, We have Bard Owls, short eared, pigmy, snowy owls in the winter, saw-whet and barn owls here in the upper left corner of the U.S. fun fun, enjoy!!

Lovely video! I saw my first shorties up in Cambridgeshire last week :)

Nice work

Great video Josie, especially the two squabbling. Saw my first SEO in flight yesterday at Elmley

Muito bom! Amazing video! I love owls!

Love this. I have kind of the same goal here in Austria. Not all owl species we have here but any other than the long eared owl which I found late last year. so keep going and can't wait for more videos of your search for the owls. greetings from Austria

beautiful video, thank you for sharing.

Wonderful. We have seen the Short Eared Owls at Staines Moor and a grumpy Little Owl sat on a wall at Hampton Home Park. I have seen a Barn Owl many years ago in Richmond Park. We have also had a Eagle Owl fly over us as we drove down a motorway in Spain at night which was pretty awesome.

What a great day! Congratulations 😊

Thank you for sharing, I am going to my local rspb site today hopefully to find some of these beautiful birds.

I watch some You tube photographers that sit behind a desk to give tips or teach. However, I much prefer these types of in the field videos. I appreciate learning more about the species you are shooting, and seeing what it’s like in your country! Thanks for sharing your knowledge!

Great video! Love the short eared owl footage, capturing them in flight can be quite the challenge!

Great video! You’ve really stepped up the production quality in your recent videos. Glad I watched until the end - the bloopers were gold!

Hi guys! Another well done video, which I enjoyed immensely. I was just out a couple of days ago looking for some Shorties but was unsuccessful, but will keep trying. I’ve seen Great Horned Owls and Short Eared Owls and Burrowing Owls, South Dakota, USA.

Lovely. Great filming! Here in the US I've seen the Great Horned Owl, Barred Owl, Snowy Owl, Eastern Screech Owl (both red and gray varieties), Burrowing Owl and Short Eared Owl in the wild.

Found your channel through the algorithm. It's definitely got it right this time! Great video! I was lucky enough to see two barn owls two weeks ago driving towards hereford about 06:40 in the morning.

Amazing, 1 from 5 ticked off already and you got some fantastic footage of them too. The Red Kite appearance was a lovely surprise! I wish you luck in spotting the other Owls that can be seen in Britain. I have only ever got footage of a Tawny Owl twice. The first time I was at a local nature reserve early one morning filming, and spotted a sleeping Tawny on a tree branch only several feet away from the path at my head height, lol. The other time was when testing my night vision binoculars at that same reserve before dawn.

We saw some short eared owls - across the pond in Pennsylvania! A first for me, we had 2 last week and 3 today. They did not appear until dusk for us.

Lovely video glad you had fun on patch.

Great channel. Keep on the good work

Joyous!

Wow, what awesome shots! I've only seen shorties from a long distance away, so cool seeing how acrobatic they can be. Hello from Wisconsin! - Ben

I used to see them on the Ouse washes always a delight

Gorgeous footage! Such a great video

Great watch. Thanks 😊

Brilliant video thank you for sharing. I've only managed to see 1 long eared owl and 1 tawny owl over here in Cambridgeshire. Unfortunately both were stationary and pretty well hidden, but I live in hope. Keep up the good work girls

Brilliant

So lucky that they're so cooperative with so much light left. Our Short eared owls seem to get active and hunting about the time the sun sets. The pants you're wearing. Who makes those they look pretty interesting and functional for field pants with plenty of zipper storage.

Wow looks like they gave yall a great show! Beautiful location for them. Still hoping to see them this winter here in Texas, no luck yet 😅

great video.....watched 4 of them put on a show recently in great smokey mtns

Brilliant vlog 😊

Great video. Eastern screech owl ( in Canada )

Gobsmacking ❤

Wonderful

Lovely footage

Fantastic video, loved it. Was wondering about looking for short eared Owls this weekend . You've just inspired me to get out and look, my favourite owl too. Just subscribed, looking forward to seeing more of your videos 👍💕

I’ve seen the Great Horned Owl and the Snowy Owl. This was in Michigan, USA. Owls are my favorite birds of prey!

Great footage - I've seen all the owls apart from Little - we don't have them up here in Scotland...

Had really good views of Barn Owl at Elmley Nature reserve on the Isle of Sheppey -Kent a few weeks ago. Good spot for - Little Owl, Short Eared and Tawney OwL !

You should visit Aberffraw here on Anglesey, some Short Eared Owls here this winter, great video by the way..

Nice🎉 great efforts 👏

That was great ladies. I too would love to get all 5 in a calendar year & had a grand start last week with a marvellous Long - Eared Owl, really close too. Good luck!..

Very interesting channel and very good films. Thanks for sharing! //Karl-David

Hi frrom australia loved ur video

What lovely shots of these gorgeous birds. Some of the moments almost look slow motion--have you slowed down any of the footage or is it all "in real time"?

what a treat to view the owl in flight, a couple owls I have seen, like the harrier, barn and saw whet, they are not an easy film on the move so koodos on your fabulous footage can relate to your enthusiasm,:) liked and sub for more

New subscriber here, a great job of video and information sharing. Keep up the wonderful work!

Brilliant video! Probably my favourite bird which I’ve only seen at distance once & has become my “bogey” bird. I hope to change that this year. Subbed👍

Very cool! There's at least 1 owl in my neighborhood, a great horned owl, but it's extremely elusive and I'm yet to capture it on camera!

Yay was waiting for this..... cracking video both, really enjoyed it...shocker right ;)

Nice❤❤❤

Great vid thankyou. Please think about standing closer to the bramble humps, the owls come closer when they can't see you, plus standing out on the path makes everyone else think its OK

I just came across your channel and immediately subscribed! I love short-eared owls and this has been a good winter for them with a lot visiting the UK. Some very impressive footage. What camera and lenses do you use?

Crumbs, you like a challenge, how are you going to find a Tawny Owl in day light?

I used to see long eared owls over by River Lea nature Reserve

Here in my part of the USA (Ohio), we have short eared owls migrate through now. I’ve never seen one, but I keep trying! That’s a bucket list item for me! We have the Eastern screech, Barred owl, and Great horned owls year round. We have others too that I’ve not seen in the wild. I got lucky once and got a Long eared owl migrating in the spring one year, and a Snowy owl once in an eruption year. Are your short eared owls year long residents? It’s winter here and we have many grey cloudy wet and sometimes frozen days. So, not much to shoot these days. Thanks for sharing your hikes!

Hi love this video i would love to see them where in Surrey was this as i live in Surrey thanks again for sharing

Nice video. I saw a short eared owl and a barn owl on boxing day last December within 10mins of each other and got some nice photos. I was also wanting to see the other 3 species of owl in the wild after seeing those two. Where was the location that you filmed at please?

Beautiful footage! What tripod do you have it looks great!

Nice footage. How do you get on with the Dot Sight EE-1?

Hi, what camera setup are you using? Thanks

What is the name of the place?

Firstly I have to say: incredible footage that you've shot of the owls. But (and I hope you'll take this as the constructive criticism it's intended as), it frustrates me SO MUCH that you've shown it all in slow-motion. It exasperates me that so many film-makers and videographers do this without first showing the clips at normal speed. If we're shooting "nature" then surely we should show it "naturally" first, and then by all means show it slowed down afterwards for emphasis or illustration of a particular behaviour - a good example would be the for wing claps. That said, keep up the good work, 'cos your love of nature and your desire to share it shines through, and I'm totally on board with that. Please feel free to check out and "constructively criticise" one or two of my humble efforts if you get the chance! ✌🤓✌

Wow, what a special afternoon that was. You got some cracking footage there. We're lucky enough to regularly hear tawny owls very close by to our house. I do have a night cam, which on one occasion caught a tawny owl mantling its prey in our back garden. That can be viewed in this clip, if you have a minute or two to spare. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/atSEo7Cgl8zRfqc.html

Apparently barn owls are not owls, i don't know what they are though.

That's incredible. I'm a wildlife photographer based in Sussex (focusing on underwater photography). You mentioned its a well known location, could I get in touch to get a bit more info please? Via Instagram or so?

Couldn’t do it. Nope. Click’n out.