A reminder of what I hope is to come tomorrow, wish me luck. Short-eared owl hunting.

First of the year in late evening sun.

Poor lighting in a cold -14C cloudy evening.

by Park Seo-Bo

Always a thrill to watch Short-eared Owls and I was privileged to watch this individual hunting over some local moorland yesterday evening and catching a number of large-looking voles.

Short-eared Owl flying in the distance.

Thank you for viewing

SEO (Short-eared owl) in the evening light.

Sun finally came out so off to visit the owls for a couple of hours this afternoon

A 'Short-eared Owl' with its lunch. ( had to resort to my archives for this one as I am not getting much action at the moment.)

I would like to post something other than owls, but I’m afraid that’s mostly all I have for you at the moment. Abberton reservoir.

Spent some time considering an image I should use to pay tribute to a contact of mine, somebody who set a standard for me , and a great advocate for t#he Short Eared Owl , David Newby quality photographer RIP

Canon EOS-1D X

ƒ/8.0

1000.0 mm

1/3200

ISO 1250

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)

No sign of any Short Eared Owls this afternoon unfortunately. So one from last year when they were still under the radar.

Was lucky enough to have this wonderful bird land on the post in front of me - only for it to be chased off by another Shortie - the lighter one in my previous posted shot - which then circled round and alighted on the next post. A magical thing to watch!

Taken with the RF 800mm lens - which prefers good light - so I had to use a really slow shutter speed and under expose to keep the ISO down to a reasonable level.

Shor-eared Owl

Shingle Street

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus). This photo illustrates a particular feature of the eyes of owls - differential dilation. When zooming into this image the pupil of the right eye (in sunlight) can be seen to be noticeably smaller than that of the left eye (in shadow).

Thank you all who fave and comment on my photo'/video's,much appreciated.And thank you all for looking.

Iglesia Colegial Basílica de Santa María

Játiva (Valencia, España)

Low flying Hooter... I never tire of watching these wonderful birds going about their business...

So... On closer inspection of my recent shots, I've noticed a small degree of distortion and chromatic aberration. This is because I hadn't uploaded the lens aberration correction data to the camera. I've done it now, so I'll have to go and retake several weeks worth of shots, hey ho.

Owls Gallery

Short-eared Owl (Asio flammeus)

nice to see these beauties back stayed distant but good light