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Strix woodfordii
Quite large, compare against Impalas below it in pic 2. I didn't see it on the day but noticed it in the picture just now, 6 years later!
Marula/Knob-thorn Open Tree Savanna.
It's common in its range, is found in this habitat, and is practically the only same colored earless owl in South Africa.
The fact that I had disabled the RAW function on the camera so that I could save lots of pictures on our 7 month trip around the world did not help. As this is a compressed jpeg and has lost a lot of data. I had even bought a second hard drive in Singapore but they just weren't big enough in those days. I took over 40,000 pictures on that trip.
It has even been suggested that it may just be an old log. I have posted another picture which is a bit clearer, it does have a hint of tail and wings and also perhaps an eye, but difficult to tell.
Could certainly be an owl, but with this picture quality, I'm not sure if it could be narrowed to species.
Sharp eye! I would never have spotted that!
Spotted on Feb 29, 2008
Submitted on Jan 29, 2014
