Lunch with a view: Northern Hawk Owl
The on-line All about Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) gives a description of this medium size owl of the boreal forest much better than I could:
'The Northern Hawk Owl behaves like a hawk but looks like an owl.
Its oval body, yellow eyes, and round face enclosed by dark, parenthesis are distinctly owl.
Its long tail and habit of perching atop solitary trees and hunting by daylight are characteristics of a hawk'
Hence, the name.
* Thank you, Ivan Deng for the heads up. We spent a couple of fantastic hours photographing this owl and were treated to some memorable sights of it hunting along the side of the country road.
Taken 0n: Jan 2021, Thorhild County, Alberta
Nikon D500 w/500f4G
Lightroom 6.0
Thank you very much for the visit and comment.
Lunch with a view: Northern Hawk Owl
The on-line All about Birds (Cornell Lab of Ornithology) gives a description of this medium size owl of the boreal forest much better than I could:
'The Northern Hawk Owl behaves like a hawk but looks like an owl.
Its oval body, yellow eyes, and round face enclosed by dark, parenthesis are distinctly owl.
Its long tail and habit of perching atop solitary trees and hunting by daylight are characteristics of a hawk'
Hence, the name.
* Thank you, Ivan Deng for the heads up. We spent a couple of fantastic hours photographing this owl and were treated to some memorable sights of it hunting along the side of the country road.
Taken 0n: Jan 2021, Thorhild County, Alberta
Nikon D500 w/500f4G
Lightroom 6.0
Thank you very much for the visit and comment.