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Near Opal. Alberta.. If you zoom into the top left of the post perch you will see a caterpillar. I sent an enlarged image of this to entomologist John Acorn for an identification. I have never seen a caterpillar here in February.
Thorhild County, Alberta.
Sharp-eyed Ken Hansen found this roosting Barred Owl on a walk in the north White Mud trail system this morning. He called me on my cell phone. I happened to be walking on the South trail a half hour away. The Owl waited. Thanks Ken.
According to the Breeding Atlas of Birds of Alberta, the breeding habitat of the Barred Owl consists of relatively heavy mature woods often with nearby open country for foraging, but densely foliaged trees for roosting, and the presence of enough large trees with suitable cavities to allow for nesting. In Alberta, the Barred Owl has adapted to forests of a predominately coniferous character. They nest in late February or early March.
Their diet consists of a wide variety of small mammals, including mice, voles, chipmunks and squirrels; a wide variety of birds including sparrows, juncos, Jays, robins and swallows; fish and insects. They drink water frequently and bathe often
White Mud Park Edmonton. November 04, 2010.
Domaine de Maizerets, Québec
Enfin un vieux souhait réalisé. Lorsque j'ai commencé à observer les oiseaux, on parle d'une cinquantaine d'années, (ouf! le temps passe vite... Comme si c'était hier!) j'ai été impressionné par le disque facial de ce rapace en regardant une photo. Dès lors j'ai voulu voir cette chouette, inaccessible pour moi, car il fallait s'enfoncer loin dans les grandes forêts boréales pour la voir.
Je fus très mal placé pour prendre cette photo. J'ai été contraint de m'adosser sur des arbustes à cause de mon téléobjectif à focale fixe qui m'empêcha de reculer davantage pour mieux cadrer. Le cadrage n'est pas à mon goût, mais je suis très heureux de cette photo d'une première rencontre avec cette oiseau vraiment magnifique.
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Finally an old wish realized. When I started to observe the birds, we talk about fifty years, (Oh! The time goes on... As if it was yesterday!) I was impressed by the facial disc of this raptor by looking at a photo. From then on I wanted to see this owl, inaccessible to me, for it was necessary to sink far into the great boreal forests to see it.
I was not very well placed to take this picture. I was forced to lean on shrubs because of my telephoto lens with a fixed focal length which prevented me to back off for a better framing.. The framing is not to my taste, but I am very happy with this photo of a first encounter with this really beautiful bird.
WOW! Je suis émerveillé par cette sympathique chouette. Elle se tient perchée très bas. Les photographes ne l'inquiète nullement. On jase, on utilise nos caméras. Elle continue sa surveillance des lieux, et écoute le moindre son signalant la présence de petits rongeurs. Tellement à l'aise qu'elle pratique la chasse sous nos yeux.
Soudain elle se dresse rapidement. Elle entend quelque chose plus loin et décide d'aller voir. Elle se précipite au sol. C'était un mulot ou une musaraigne qu'elle ingurgita. Malheureusement, je n'ai pu capter la scène.
P.S.: Voici la scène que j'ai manquée et que mon amie Denise Laflamme a captée. Chouette avec sa proie
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WOW! I am amazed by this nice owl. It is allas perched very low. The photographers do not worry him. We talk, we use our camera. It continues its surveillance of the places, and listens to the small sounds signaling the presence of small rodents. So much at ease that it practices the hunt before our eyes.
Suddenly it rises quickly. It hears something further and decides to go see. It rushes to the ground. It was a mouse or a shrew that it ingurgitated. Unfortunately I could not catch the scene.
P.S .: Here is the scene that I missed and that my friend Denise Laflamme has captured. Owl with its prey
Ken Hansen and I found this sleeping Barred Owl on a walk in the White Mud trail system this morning.
According to the Breeding Atlas of Birds of Alberta, the breeding habitat of the Barred Owl consists of relatively heavy mature woods often with nearby open country for foraging, but densely foliaged trees for roosting, and the presence of enough large trees with suitable cavities to allow for nesting. In Alberta, the Barred Owl has adapted to forests of a predominately coniferous character. They nest in late February or early March.
White Mud Park Edmonton. March 06, 2010
Lechuza Chaqueña en el patio de la Estación Cañada el Camen.
A 17km de la frontera con Bolivia, me siento muy feliz de haber vuelto a aquel diverso rincón del bosque seco.
Boquerón, Paraguay
Ural Owl. This capture is published few days earlier. Here it comes sharpened and cropped a bit tighter. Better? Who knows.
Viirupöllö
Helsinki 2014-11-14
Once again, I am back to posting photos from my archives until I manage to get out again. Our weather has been beautiful recently, though some days have been very windy. The snow has been melting nicely and most places seem to be free of snow on the ground.
If I wrote a description under any previously-posted photos that were taken on the same outings as these 'new' photos posted today, I will add it under today's photos.
"My spirits were lifted on 24 January 2017, with this sighting of a beautiful Barred Owl. I've barely been out looking for Snowy Owls and Short-eared Owls this winter and have only seen a few, very distant birds - at least until the 25 January 2017, when I was lucky enough to see 11 Snowy Owls outside the city, with a friend who is brilliant at spotting things. I've also missed a recent Long-eared Owl and a Northern Saw-whet Owl.
This was only the second 100% wild Barred Owl I’d ever seen. I had seen a family of them near Edmonton, when we went to see ones that had been banded. They were wild birds, but I still hoped to one day see a completely wild one (no nesting box). The owl in this photo was beautiful – crummy light, but I was so happy to see this owl. We very rarely see this species within the city, so it was a real treat. Took a long walk before seeing it, and it took me a few days to recover from it - but it was so worth it."
"The Barred Owl’s hooting call, “Who cooks for you? Who cooks for you-all?” is a classic sound of old forests and treed swamps. But this attractive owl, with soulful brown eyes and brown-and-white-striped plumage, can also pass completely unnoticed as it flies noiselessly through the dense canopy or snoozes on a tree limb. Originally a bird of the east, during the twentieth century it spread through the Pacific Northwest and southward into California." From AllAboutBirds.
I'm hiding behind my Spanish curtains.
Barred Owl (Strix varia) photographed off the Marsh Rabbit Run Trail in Circle B Bar Reserve located in Lakeland in Polk County Florida U.S.A.
African Wood Owl (Strix woodfordii) is a close relative of the Tawny Owl, and it shows too as this looks pretty similar to a Tawny. Except I have still to achieve a decent photograph of a Tawny Owl. It is strictly nocturnal but unlike Tawny its diet is mainly insects, though it does take a few small mammals, lizards and birds. Nocturnal birds are often characterised by having large, black eyes like this one. I took the photograph at Dinsho nature reserve in the Bale Mountains in Ethiopia. Here it is represented by susbspecies umbrina, one of four subspecies throughout its range in sub-Saharan Africa. This photograph was a lot harder to take than it looks as the foliage was very dense and I had a tiny window for a clear view for a split second before it moved. Its scientific name commemorates a 19th century army officer Colonel E J A Woodford who collected natural history specimens and bird art.
STRIX 67 13-5776. Lockheed Martin MC-130J Commando II. Low level from Cad East, Mach Loop, Wales. _MG_2819
The fallen tree over the stream gives a platform for this barred owl to scan for crayfish or mice along the edges of the stream, just been looking back through some old pictures and looking forward to these beautiful birds returning to nest
Second time in a week, whereby Ive been looking through my binoculars to be greeted with big black eyes starring back at me. Great surprise.
Tawny Owl
Adel Dam
26th May 2017
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I posted some Barred Owl shots just last week, but Bernd Schwanke and I were led to this one by local birder Betty Fisher who found it while bushwhacking looking for the Black-backed and Three-toed Woodpeckers that we were also looking for.
This time the eyes were wide open and this is the closest I have ever been to a wild Owl. This is most likely a juvenile produced by a breeding pair in the river valley last winter.
According to the Breeding Atlas of Birds of Alberta, the breeding habitat of the Barred Owl consists of relatively heavy mature woods often with nearby open country for foraging, but densely foliaged trees for roosting, and the presence of enough large trees with suitable cavities to allow for nesting. In Alberta, the Barred Owl has adapted to forests of a predominately coniferous character. They nest in late February or early March.
Their diet consists of a wide variety of small mammals, including mice, voles, chipmunks and squirrels; a wide variety of birds including sparrows, juncos, Jays, robins and swallows; fish and insects. They drink water frequently and bathe often
Un-named trail south of Hawrelak Park. November 10, 2010.