Just in time for
pantomime season - "It's behind you!"
3:48PM
GMT 27 Nov 2015
A
twitcher - that's a bird-watcher to me and you - was looking out for a
magnificent and rare eagle-owl in the Netherlands when he got a massive shock.
The
bird he was looking out for came really close to him!
Too
close, in fact - it landed on the back of his head, as a colleague captured the
moment on camera.
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| Photo: Chris Meewis/Mercury Press |
The
wildlife photographers travelled to the town of Hilversum in the Netherlands
after hearing that a large Eurasian eagle-owl, usually only spotted in remote
forests, had been seen on the roof of a house near some playing fields.
One
photographer was so busy looking through his camera lense that he didn't notice
the bird was making a beeline for his head.
Chris
Meewis, who took the photo, told the Daily Mail: "We were all there waiting to see if
we could spot this owl and photographers had come from all over to see it as it
is a really magnificent bird.
"It
was supposed to be living on the roof of this house near some playing fields
and everyone had set up their cameras but were yet to spot it. Suddenly out of
nowhere this huge shape appeared and landed on one of the photographer’s heads.
"It
was so funny as all of the cameras suddenly turned on him. There he was
thinking he was the one taking the picture and suddenly he finds himself the
centre of one! Everyone was laughing but he was in complete shock and just
stood there very still."
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