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Short Eared Owl on Skomer.... not the best of shots, the light was harsh and heat haze was causing problems on that day, but it was great to see the owls this visit, they were showing better than previous visits and almost all overnight visitors saw them, though they weren't exactly close!
Some rather poorer images in the comments.
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A box of owlies surfaced today, too. I can't wait to reunite them with the others. Of course, this isn't the way I had packed them. I was up to my knees in scrunched up newspaper when I shot this. :)
Owl jewelry is my newest addiction. I wore that necklace all day yesterday.
Right now I'm wearing owl earrings.
I bought this wee little owl at Target today. He is a place card holder, but I think I will use him to hold a photo instead. $1.99. Yes please.
This is my photo for February 3, 2009.
Over a half century ago on a hot summer's night as I would try to drift off to sleep, I would sometimes hear the haunting hoot of an owl from somewhere in our farm grove. But I can't ever remember catching a glimpse of them.
Facts: Minnesota has twelve species of owls: barn, barred, boreal, burrowing, great gray, great-horned, northern hawk, long-eared, saw-whet, eastern screech, short-eared and snowy. You can tell this barred owl by its eyes; It is the only owl in our state with dark eyes. All other owls here have yellow eyes.
I posted a shot of this place a couple of weeks ago that I shot with the Graflex Auto Reflex. This one was taken with the Leica R4, on Fuji Color 200, developed in ECN-2. The colors here are more vibrant than the shot from the Auto Reflex on Portra 400, which is perhaps more naturalistic.
One of the small fleet of converted tugs that visit Napanee a few times each season.
It's sitting low at the wharf right now because the river rises and lowers with a "tide" that comes from the variances of Lake Ontario.
In a bizarre way owls remind me of cats, except cats haven't got beaks, oh and they haven't got feathers, oh and they haven't got wings.........but in the dark Mojo definitely looks like an owl - lol
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An owl among odds and ends in an exhibit showing how early museums showed things before they were grouped. It was more of a collection of oddities.
another photo of this cutie! she's a barred owl, and the patterns her feathers made were so intricate and amazing ahh i just can't get over it. obviously i took pictures of different birds, but i just love owls and they're oh so photogenic ;)
expect lots more bird spam! these pictures are so fun to edit wowowow
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The Barred Owl (Strix varia)
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Photographs taken at the Dinner Island Wildlife Management Area south of Clewiston, Florida: March 27, 2010
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The wild horses of Northwestern Colorado in the Sand Wash Basin are fascinating. Here is part of a band headed up by the pinto horse named Hoot. His lead mare is Juniper and the filly shown here is their offspring.
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This is Hoot, the Owl in polka-dots :)
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Sometimes you just want to take pictures of some very cute, nice looking Hoots, right...?
On a more serious note; this picture was taken a few days ago in the afternoon. Just recently, two long-eared owls have taken up residence at our local church. Wasting no time, I jumped over to the spot to take multiple pictures. This one is certainly the best of all the others I took. Not everyday you get to experience such scenario in the wild, let alone up close and personal!
Couldn't resist these tartan mudguards when I saw them advertised on ebay. I vaguely remember them from the 1960's. I think they look the biz on my old 1935 Scot. I had been looking for a vintage pair of cream Bluemels spearpoint ones but these came up and . . . enough said.
According to WikiWhoKnowsAlmostEverything, the Great Horned Owl (Bubo virginianus) is the most common and widespread owl in the Americas. Nevertheless it was quite the surprise to see one fly across a suburban Houston street in broad daylight to land in a tree ready to pose for a photograph.
The species seems to be the New World equivalent of Eurasia's Eagle Owl (Bubo bubo). They are HUGE, especially when seen in flight.
Hoot Owl is an old-time name for the species that I rather like and fits their call which consists of 3-8 deep hoots "Whoo. Whoo-whoo-whoo. Whoo. Whoo"
Above the River Avon rests the incredible bridge Pulteney. It's populated with restaurants and shops. And outside a window is an owl guarding the customers eating at the restaurant, is it fake? Is it real? No one will ever know.
Back to archive photos again, sigh. Another five photos from my archives this evening. I am adding the description that I wrote under a different image taken on the same outing.
"Coming across a Long-eared Owl in the wild is a huge thrill, as they are not often seen, but the next best thing is to see one in captivity at one of the wildlife rehabilitation centres. I think I have been lucky enough to see six or seven of them in the wild. This one lives at the Alberta Bird of Prey Centre in Coaldale, southern Alberta, and I think the lady said it was about five months old
"Long-eared Owls are lanky owls that often seem to wear a surprised expression thanks to long ear tufts that typically point straight up like exclamation marks. These nocturnal hunters roost in dense foliage, where their camouflage makes them hard to find, and forage over grasslands for small mammals. Long-eared Owls are nimble flyers, with hearing so acute they can snatch prey in complete darkness. In spring and summer, listen for their low, breathy hoots and strange barking calls in the night." From AllABoutBirds.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Long-eared_Owl/id
It had been a few years since my last visit to the Alberta Bird of Prey Centre - I've only been maybe three or four times - and I had been longing to go back. Much too far and all new driving territory for me to even think about driving there myself. However, six days ago, on 9 September 2016, that is exactly what I did. A friend had said she would come along, too, but she emailed me at 1:00 am that morning to say that she assumed the trip had been cancelled, as she hadn't heard back about the time to meet. In fact, I had sent two emails giving the time, so I don't know what happened there. Very unfortunate, as it would have been great to have had company on such a long drive, and I know she would have had fun with her camera.
I knew it would be a long day and further than I would normally drive - and in a brand new car that I have yet to learn to drive! It doesn't look or feel quite as new now, after travelling 481 km! Only got lost twice, one minor and the other major. Must have taken a wrong turn somewhere down south and I ended up in the city of Lethbridge, that I had very carefully planned to avoid. After driving for three and three-quarter hours, I finally arrived, to my huge relief.
Despite getting there later than I had hoped, I still had more than enough time to wander round the grounds and photograph the various raptors. Some were tethered out in a grassy area and others were in outdoor cages. Wonderful to get such a close look at the various majestic birds.
I took a slightly different way home via #845 (?), making absolutely sure that I didn't accidentally find myself in Lethbridge again and it wasn't too long before I found myself in the area that I had driven a few weeks ago, when I went SW of Vulcan to look for Common Nighthawks (without any luck).
Just so happy that I finally made myself do this drive. When I Googled the Centre's website, I had discovered that they were closing two days later for the winter. So, it was either a case of going the next day or not at all till next May onwards.
The very next day, 10 September 2016, I took my daughter on a long drive in Kananaskis. This was yet another place that I had longed to be able to drive for many years - and finally I did it! I had been lots of times with various friends, but this was the very first time I had ever driven myself. We had planned to do this a few weeks earlier, but then my car had major repairs that needed to be done. Instead, I knew I just couldn't put any more money into my 17-year-old car, and I ended up replacing it. So glad we went on this particular day, as it snowed the following day."