Owls
Mar 12, 2024 20:37:45 #
I'm looking for some help. Can anyone tell me where I can photograph owls in southern New Hampshire?
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
Mar 12, 2024 22:31:27 #
You might want to get in touch with your local Audubon Society (they may have changed their name by now). They'll be able to help you with this.
Mar 12, 2024 22:39:53 #
Lou Lainey wrote:
I'm looking for some help. Can anyone tell me where I can photograph owls in southern New Hampshire?
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
They specialize in being invisible. I had some difficulty, even with my headlights on him, convincing my wife that the end of a large broken branch was really an owl. She argued otherwise til the moment the branch flew off.
IOW, maybe youve already been in the right place at the right time. Keep looking.
Mar 13, 2024 01:48:38 #
I had one in my garden...sitting on the clothes line.......................flew off without a sound.wonderful
Mar 13, 2024 04:40:32 #
I believe someone posted a youtube link on finding owls for photographing recently. I couldn't find the post but checking on youtube there are several videos. I didn't watch any so I can't vouch for them but you could check out a few if you don't get any advice here
Mar 13, 2024 06:08:14 #
Check your local Taxidermist. Hopefully, it will not be the one on the hill behind the Bates Motel who loved his mother so as to preserve, remove, disinfect, and preserve her skin, mounting her on a rocking chair. Owls are commonly the subject of Taxidermists.
Stuffed Owls are patient and cooperative with photographers. To see examples of what the local Taxidermist may have, Google "images of taxidermist stuffed owls."
Stuffed Owls are patient and cooperative with photographers. To see examples of what the local Taxidermist may have, Google "images of taxidermist stuffed owls."
Mar 13, 2024 07:07:19 #
Lou Lainey wrote:
I'm looking for some help. Can anyone tell me where I can photograph owls in southern New Hampshire?
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
I have no experience in New Hampshire. Since I have a house in Pennsylvania, I do have two suggestions.
Lacawac Sanctuary
94 Sanctuary Road
Lake Ariel, PA 18436
Delaware Valley Raptor Center
416 Cummins Hill Road
Milford, PA 18337
I wish I could do better for you. The first one is not too far from my home.
Mar 13, 2024 08:24:31 #
New Hampshire Audobon: https://www.nhaudubon.org
From their site, check this out: https://www.nhaudubon.org/event/owl-prowl-april-2024/
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From their site, check this out: https://www.nhaudubon.org/event/owl-prowl-april-2024/
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Mar 13, 2024 08:29:22 #
billnikon
Loc: Pennsylvania/Ohio/Florida/Maui/Oregon/Vermont
Lou Lainey wrote:
I'm looking for some help. Can anyone tell me where I can photograph owls in southern New Hampshire?
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
I've been looking and haven't had much luck.
I have photographed Owls for years, and I never give location because the first time I did it I was horrified when returning to the nest, I saw a guy with a laser pointing at the owl, another was playing a female in distress trying to get the male to fly and yet another person throwing sticks in an effort to get the male to fly.
I called local animal control and the folks who owned to property. They showed up in about 15 minutes and removed everyone, the good, the bad, and the ugly from the property and the property owner put up barriers.
Bottom line the babies both died and the parents left.
So, if anyone here gives you a location for owls they better take responsibility for the health of the Owls.
If anyone takes offense to my post they can shove it up there....................
Mar 13, 2024 11:00:21 #
Mar 13, 2024 11:04:49 #
I have loads of Owls around me...and very few images of them.
They see you before you ever see them. Hawk like vision.
Best advice...find a spot you know they are..(you will hear them at night)...and start to become a piece of furniture there. It takes time. Don't point your camera at them the first time you see them...that sets up a negative pattern.
Gradual is the key...patience.
They don't trust us...and they shouldn't.
If you want to hurry things up...bring a dead mouse.
They see you before you ever see them. Hawk like vision.
Best advice...find a spot you know they are..(you will hear them at night)...and start to become a piece of furniture there. It takes time. Don't point your camera at them the first time you see them...that sets up a negative pattern.
Gradual is the key...patience.
They don't trust us...and they shouldn't.
If you want to hurry things up...bring a dead mouse.
Mar 13, 2024 12:04:41 #
billnikon wrote:
I have photographed Owls for years, and I never gi... (show quote)
That's their, not there!
I hope that situation didn't catch you by surprise, Bill!
Mar 13, 2024 15:21:48 #
dpullum wrote:
Check your local Taxidermist. Hopefully, it will not be the one on the hill behind the Bates Motel who loved his mother so as to preserve, remove, disinfect, and preserve her skin, mounting her on a rocking chair. Owls are commonly the subject of Taxidermists.
Stuffed Owls are patient and cooperative with photographers. To see examples of what the local Taxidermist may have, Google "images of taxidermist stuffed owls."
Stuffed Owls are patient and cooperative with photographers. To see examples of what the local Taxidermist may have, Google "images of taxidermist stuffed owls."
I picked up a dead great horned owl from a creek bank and offered it to a taxidermist, who informed me that possession was a serious crime with very real consequences, regardless of back story.
The advice was to give it to the NYS ENCON ranger and she would not press charges cuz ENCON is always interested in autopsying a top tier predator and would overlook the law.
I put the bird in the freezer at a friends goat dairy and told the ranger where she could collect it. All went well. If the bird did get taxidermied it would most likely be in the collection at the local ENCON science center.
Mar 13, 2024 15:26:36 #
Retired CPO wrote:
That's their, not there!
I hope that situation didn't catch you by surprise, Bill!
I hope that situation didn't catch you by surprise, Bill!
Read again. "there ....... " also works well !
Mar 13, 2024 15:30:45 #
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