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Pygmy Owl Glaucidium passerinum |
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Trnovski gozd in the snow |
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Dipper Cinclus cinclus - smart as always |
Sunny afternoon in the snow-covered Trnovo forest with a
PYGMY OWL above your head. Can you ask for more? I don't think so.
Sorry for the above pics, it's just a documentative phone-binning attempt. Nevertheless a great moment watching a Pygmy Owl sat for 15 minutes on the top of a fir.
Other birds in the forest included the commoner species like Coal and Willow Tit, Crossbill, Bullfinch, Brambling and so on. An unexpected surprise were 3
ROOKS in a field near Ajdovščina. Pretty scarce winter visitors here. Highlights along the Hubelj river included the pair of
Dippers still building their nest, 1 Kingfisher and 2 Grey Wagtails. All the three river specialists.