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Subject: [Leica] IMG: Short-eared Owl
From: kcarney1 at cox.net (Ken Carney)
Date: Sat, 02 Jul 2011 12:11:42 -0500
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Those are great.  There is a Mississippi Kite Hawk nesting a few blocks 
from the house, terrorizing anyone who gets near its tree.  I'm going up 
later today to see if I can get a photo of it trying to dive bomb me -- 
what could go wrong?   A couple of hair-challenged people have already 
had some nasty cuts.

Ken

On 7/2/2011 11:34 AM, 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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Replies: Reply from mark at rabinergroup.com (Mark Rabiner) ([Leica] IMG: Short-eared Owl)
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