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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Short-eared Owl
From: ricc at embarqmail.com (Ric Carter)
Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 12:37:58 -0400
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your usual awesome

ric


On Jul 2, 2011, at 12:34 PM, Doug Herr wrote:

> 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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