It's mine!

This is the only photo I've been able to get of a tiny Northern Pygmy-owl after it has flown down to the ground and caught a Meadow Vole. This behaviour is called "mantling", letting it be known that this catch is his/hers. It all happened so quickly and there were a lot of people standing watching, so I wasn't able to move to a better spot to take this shot. There was a large, dark brown tree-trunk right across the left side of the photo, which didn't want to be removed, so it's badly done, but better than the very dark, original patch. Photo taken in Fish Creek Park on 10 January 2015.

"The Northern Pygmy-Owl may be tiny, but it’s a ferocious hunter with a taste for songbirds. These owls are mostly dark brown and white, with long tails, smoothly rounded heads, and piercing yellow eyes. They hunt during the day by sitting quietly and surprising their prey. As a defensive measure, songbirds often gather to mob sitting owls until they fly away. Mobbing songbirds can help you find these unobtrusive owls, as can listening for their call, a high-pitched series of toots." From AllAboutBirds.

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Pygmy-Owl/id

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pygmy_owl