Eleven Hoots for this gorgeous juvenile Barred Owl
Aug 10, 2015 18:27:07 #
Aug 10, 2015 18:55:06 #
Wow! Swampy! These are great... So glad he was such a patient model! Please send him my way!
Aug 10, 2015 20:16:39 #
Sylvias wrote:
Great captures and story Swamp-Cork, love owls. :thumbup: :thumbup: :D
Thanks again Sylvia, and appreciate you looking!
Aug 10, 2015 20:21:51 #
Amazing set Corky!!! What a beautiful bird and beautiful job getting these!! I have yet to catch the one I hear back in my woods.:)
Aug 10, 2015 21:12:20 #
Erv wrote:
Amazing set Corky!!! What a beautiful bird and beautiful job getting these!! I have yet to catch the one I hear back in my woods.:)
I think you are more likely to see the Barred Owls in the daytime than most others. The ones around here are more likely to hide in trees providing fairly dense cover and I listen for the songbirds making that scolding sound when they spot one. Of course it's even more obvious when the crows spot them!
Aug 10, 2015 21:37:26 #
Well done!!! Hard to ask for any nicer shots than these! Great work!!!
Aug 10, 2015 21:48:58 #
Treepusher wrote:
Well done!!! Hard to ask for any nicer shots than these! Great work!!!
Thanks again, Randy, I have so much to learn.
Aug 11, 2015 05:54:45 #
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Aug 11, 2015 07:41:00 #
Swamp-Cork wrote:
While dining in our sunroom we happen to see a ver... (show quote)
Wow,just great photos! I wait everyday for the same experience you have had,maybe someday! Thanks for sharing!
Aug 11, 2015 07:55:02 #
If you have more opportunities to photograph the owls, it would be great to see catch light in their eyes, achieved by focusing on the eyes.
Aug 11, 2015 08:21:47 #
Marilyng wrote:
Wow,just great photos! I wait everyday for the same experience you have had,maybe someday! Thanks for sharing!
Yes, sometimes it just seems to happen that way, Marilyng. Most of the time the bird flies before you are ready for the shot, or is hidden by foliage, etc. One thing that helps is that the Barred owls seem to prefer living around the swamps and even feeding on small fish, along with their more normal diet of small birds, animals, frogs lizards, snakes and probably even large insets. Here's hoping your special experience comes your way very soon, and thanks for your kind words and for viewing. PS I noticed that you are from Ohio and I subscribe to a great little family owned birding magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, that is published in Marietta, Ohio that I enjoy reading very much. Take care!
Aug 11, 2015 08:34:13 #
clgonzo wrote:
If you have more opportunities to photograph the owls, it would be great to see catch light in their eyes, achieved by focusing on the eyes.
Thanks for the suggestion clgonzo, but I have about fifty pictures of the owl, in which I was trying to do just that but it did not cooperate so very well. Some of the ones that I downloaded came about as close as any to achieving that, but also wish they could have been better. Oh well, maybe next time. Thanks for commenting and looking. Take care!
Aug 11, 2015 09:30:12 #
Swamp-Cork wrote:
Yes, sometimes it just seems to happen that way, M... (show quote)
I hear the bared owl all the time in our back woods,saw him once but had no camera with me.Maybe I will get lucky one of these days/evenings!
Aug 11, 2015 09:33:37 #
FrodoBaggins wrote:
Wow! Swampy! These are great... So glad he was such a patient model! Please send him my way!
Wish that I could steer one in your direction, Frodo, but they seem to ignore me. :-P Thanks very much for your comments and I value your opinion greatly! Take care!
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