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    Last Updated: 24/02/2025
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    Lifestyle

    Photo of the Week: One of our most majestic birds

    by Tamsin O'Brien

    | 02 Mar, 2025
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    This barn owl was captured by Michelle Bray at the Staveley Nature Reserve near Knaresborough in the late afternoon. 

    Please do send us pictures celebrating the district.

    Photo of the Week takes centre stage in our nightly email newsletter. The newsletter drops into your inbox every evening at 6pm with all the day’s stories and more. To sign up, click here.

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    Photo of the Week celebrates the Harrogate district. It could be anything from family life to capturing the district’s beauty. We are interested in amateur and professional photographs, in a landscape format.

    Send your photographs to letters@thestrayferret.co.uk for a chance to be featured next week. We reserve the right to adjust and crop images to fit into our format.

    StarThe Sunday Picture Quiz: guess where we are this week.. Feb 23StarPhoto of the Week: a beautiful weather moment over Burton Leonard