The rest of the cast to the morning of “Brown Owls. After we located and photographed several pairs of Barred Owls, we switched to try and find Great Horned Owls. We found two different pairs. The first pair we believe the female was on the nest of getting ready to nest, so we photographed the Male. We did not want to pull her off the eggs if she already had laid them so we left after one launch series.
The Launch
Batman! I usually don’t post wildlife photos where you can’t see the eyes, but I liked this wing position.
Flyover
The second pair that found and answered the female was on eggs so no photos and we left.
Next up to edit is my beloved American Bald Eagles.
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Kent
The Launch Series!
Even though Mike and Robert know areas where the owls hang out there is never a guarantee that you will be able to find them.
How about the first Great Horned Owl?
Hope to have some launch series and flight shots edited in the next day or two. After I get caught up on Owl edits, I’ll switch over and work on some Eagles, but I have 1400 plus eagles shots to process. I might have been a little trigger happy knowing this was my one and only eagle trip of winter 2015/2016 Eagles.
I can’t remember who but somebody asked if I had any cardinals, so I called this guy in for his closeup!
The wind was SO strong it messed with the eagles ability to fish. This one fished with the wind instead of against the wind like normal.
Classic Right to Left Talon pose
I feel the straight on shots are the hardest to keep in focus. Straight On!
Day 2 was brown owls in the morning and eagles in the afternoon. Three to Six inches of snow coming in tomorrow so might have to cut this outing a day early, but going to try to find some Snowy Owls in the morning. Might use Sunday evening for more editing.
He was drinking water and then blowing it out his nose like a little kid.
