Dinner Is Served
In this image, the father owl is delivering the first meal of the night to the young owl that hasn't yet learned to fly and provide for itself. On top of the owl house, is the other young owl that's part of this year's brood. The owl on top, however, started flying two nights ago, but is still looking to the parents for food until it can hunt well enough to feed itself. The owls have been in the house, during daylight, for at least fifteen hours today, and this is the first delivered meal since sunrise.
Strobist info: I lit this with a bare YN560-II and a bare YN560, each on it's own tall light stand, on either side of the owl nesting box. The strobes, both in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N, which also served as a remote shutter release.
We had this owl box installed a little over two years, ago and this is the third pair of young owls that have been raised in it. Our motivation for putting in the owl house was for rodent control on our rural property. It turns out that we really enjoy having the owls around, and learning about owls. And they are great at taking care of rodents. I believe I read that the average barn owl eats at least three rodents a day. That's better than one thousand per year.
I have all of my owl pictures in my Barn Owl set which can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/...
Dinner Is Served
In this image, the father owl is delivering the first meal of the night to the young owl that hasn't yet learned to fly and provide for itself. On top of the owl house, is the other young owl that's part of this year's brood. The owl on top, however, started flying two nights ago, but is still looking to the parents for food until it can hunt well enough to feed itself. The owls have been in the house, during daylight, for at least fifteen hours today, and this is the first delivered meal since sunrise.
Strobist info: I lit this with a bare YN560-II and a bare YN560, each on it's own tall light stand, on either side of the owl nesting box. The strobes, both in manual mode, were triggered by a Yongnuo RF-603N, which also served as a remote shutter release.
We had this owl box installed a little over two years, ago and this is the third pair of young owls that have been raised in it. Our motivation for putting in the owl house was for rodent control on our rural property. It turns out that we really enjoy having the owls around, and learning about owls. And they are great at taking care of rodents. I believe I read that the average barn owl eats at least three rodents a day. That's better than one thousand per year.
I have all of my owl pictures in my Barn Owl set which can be seen here. www.flickr.com/photos/9422878@N08/sets/72157630045851110/...