I went back with my camera this morning and it turns out that it was a bird standing by its nest rather than one roosting that I saw yesterday - fortunately with a lot of zoom at my disposal and not having left the verge of the fairly busy road I can be confident that I didn’t disturb them as that would have been bad.

Edited because I forgot the important tag #NotADuck

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Today’s morning walk meant I got to spot a roosting barn owl. Wouldn’t have seen that if I were sat in a metal box on wheels - another reason to much prefer an active #FakeCommute to an actual commute in the car.

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Barn owl again on my morning walk, in the same place, today… and this time I had my pocket bins on me :-)

Flap-flying about a lot, rather than gently gliding as I’ve normally seen before, though definitely still hunting.

Ideas for possible reasons -
warm still day makes gliding harder/impractical?
young/inexperienced bird?
lots of car noise interferes with the listening done when gliding, while flapping lets it cover more ground while predominantly eyeballing for prey?
flapping is more fun?

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