{"id":3343,"date":"2026-01-11T17:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-11T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/?p=3343"},"modified":"2026-01-12T12:14:23","modified_gmt":"2026-01-12T11:14:23","slug":"short-eared-owl-velduil-asio-flammeus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/?p=3343","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared owl – Velduil (Asio Flammeus)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The reason I drove to the Eempolder today was the many sightings \u2014 and stunning photographs \u2014 of short-eared owls in the area. At one point, as many as six individuals were reported at the same time. Combined with the snow that was still covering the fields, making the owls less well camouflaged, the chances of a successful sighting suddenly seemed much higher \u2014 or at least very real.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those plans were briefly put on hold when I was delayed by a Eurasian bittern casually walking through the field. After taking a whole series of photos of this unexpected encounter, I decided to continue my drive, heading a bit closer to the River Eem, where the short-eared owls had been observed several times. I wasn\u2019t the first to arrive there either, but almost immediately I spotted a beautiful short-eared owl resting quietly among the grass. It turned out to be a wonderful day with memorable sightings, because a short-eared owl is a species that never seems to lose its appeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The reason I drove to the Eempolder today was the many sightings \u2014 and stunning photographs \u2014 of short-eared owls in the area. At one […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3344,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[150],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-netherlands"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/wp-content\/uploads\/Roerdomp-en-velduil-13.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4J78K-RV","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3343"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3349,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3343\/revisions\/3349"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rickvanlieshout.nl\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}