Owls

[Martin Butterfield <>]

It shows a sense of humour that Hoskings' auto biography is called "An eye for a bird".

Martin Butterfield

http://franmart.blogspot.com.au/

On Mon, 17 Dec 2018 at 05:05, Geoff Shannon <> wrote:

Yes it was Eric Hosking, quite early in his career. He was photographing nest of Tawny and checking on condition of  content in a tree hollow. As it happened was subsequently operated on by my uncle/ godfather before he was friend of my fathers! 

   Attack at nest is not uncommon.

 Geoff Shannon

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On 16 Dec 2018, at 16:31, Dominic Funnell via Birding-Aus <m("birding-aus.org","birding-aus");" target="_blank">> wrote:

There was indeed Eric Hoskings I believe lost an eye to a Tawny Owl, dont remember the circumstances.

On 16 Dec 2018 8:11 pm, "Michael Hunter" <m("westnet.com.au","drmhunter");" target="_blank">> wrote:

Was (? Is) there an English birder who called in an owl which flew in and removed one of his eyeballs ?

           Michael

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