Tawny Owl Hide
Photography

About this session

The tawny owl is Britain’s commonest owl, yet possibly the most elusive and difficult to photograph, being an owl of woodland and nocturnal in its habits. However, David, has used his experience with owls, and especially with tawny owls, to create two separate hides on the Knepp Rewilding project. So far these hides have a 100% success rate with photographers. And, these are David’s favourite hides.

The tawny owl hide is a semi-supervised hides, where you will be guided as to the settings to put into your camera, and then connected wirelessly, using third-party triggers, to the flash system which is explained, demonstrated, and tested to ensure the lighting is to your liking.

When the bird lands in front of you, you simply press the button. The owls visits several times in fairly quick succession just after dusk. Normally you will fire around 50 frames, however, hopefully these are great frames of an elusive, wild tawny owl.

Additionally, you have the opportunity to photograph these owls in ambient light, depending on the owls of course.