Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2011/07/02

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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Short-eared Owl
From: wildlightphoto at earthlink.net (Doug Herr)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:34:40 -0700 (GMT-07:00)

I recently visited Plumas County California where several Short-eared Owls 
had been reported.  I ditched work on Friday (with boss's permission) and 
left early on Thursday to catch the owls in evening light:


The owls were perched on roadside fence posts when I arrived.  Traffic on 
the road was very light, perhaps one vehicle every half hour, so I stopped 
the truck in the wrong-way lane and made some photos out the driver's side 
window.  The locals are used to this sort of thing, even the highway patrol 
passed by without a word.

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl00.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl01.html

Owls need a warmup before a night of hunting:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl02.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl03.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl04.html

Once the sun dips below the horizon the hunt is on:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl05.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl06.html

I caught up with the owl the following morning is the fog:

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl07.html
http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl08.html

Once the fog burned off the owl dropped to the cover of a weedy roadside 
ditch.  The message I got here was "hey, napping going on here, enough with 
the clicking!"

http://www.wildlightphoto.com/birds/strigidae/seowl09.html

All photos: R8/DMR, 280mm f/4 APO.  Most with 1.4x APO-Extender-R, shoulder 
stock & monopod.  Last photo without extender, with tripod.  All comments 
welcome.

Doug Herr
Birdman of Sacramento
http://www.wildlightphoto.com




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