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Eastern Screech Owl #5

Eastern Screech Owl - My back Yard in suburban New Jersey, 25 miles west of "The City" NYC

 

Today I tried putting the 1.4 on the 300, locking in F7 & ISO 800, and hoping there would be enough light to get a reasonable shutter speed. It's always a crap shoot (0.6 sec in this case), 'cause I have to set up the gear about an hour before the owl pokes out its head, and it's hard to say when that will be on any given night. These shots were from about 17 feet away with my camera mounted on a ball head bolted to a tree limb about 18 feet off the ground. The owl tends to keep an eye on me when I'm in the yard, so I got the different poses by walking around the yard (keeping a distance of about 50'), and tripping the RF release from different locations in the yard.

- Central Jersey ~25 miles west of "The City" (NYC).

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Hoping I'm not boring you all with these owl shots, but every time I get a better series than the last, I post the better shots.

 

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Uploaded on October 15, 2009
Taken on October 14, 2009