Scared Skinny
A while back some friends and I were looking in a magazine and there was a photo of a Long Eared Owl all long and skinny and it was pointed out to me how that owl was petrified-of course my pet birds do the same thing when scared-I don't know why I didn't connect the fact that owls would do that too.
This Northern Saw Whet Owl who uses staying still and hidden as a defense was feeling pretty scared at Owl Woods-I only took a quick shot at him and did not go too close in order not to stress him too much. Here's what he looks like when you have a teleconverter :)
Earlier we had seen photographers with a hat on a stick waving it in front of him-poor little guy. This second photo is an unstressed puffed up Saw Whet nicely tucked into the tree
Scared Skinny
A while back some friends and I were looking in a magazine and there was a photo of a Long Eared Owl all long and skinny and it was pointed out to me how that owl was petrified-of course my pet birds do the same thing when scared-I don't know why I didn't connect the fact that owls would do that too.
This Northern Saw Whet Owl who uses staying still and hidden as a defense was feeling pretty scared at Owl Woods-I only took a quick shot at him and did not go too close in order not to stress him too much. Here's what he looks like when you have a teleconverter :)
Earlier we had seen photographers with a hat on a stick waving it in front of him-poor little guy. This second photo is an unstressed puffed up Saw Whet nicely tucked into the tree