Please lord, let all the people be gone when I look up. Really this Great Gray Owl was just preening after eating another vole.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!
Life is good and I am blessed!
Kent
Please lord, let all the people be gone when I look up. Really this Great Gray Owl was just preening after eating another vole.
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!
Life is good and I am blessed!
Kent
It has been 9 winters since I have photographed American Bald Eagles on the mighty Mississippi River below Lock and Dam 14, just north of the Quad Cities. This is one of my happy winter places as this is where the entire wildlife photography journey started back in 2010. The light was all over the place today from heavy clouds, snow, and partial sunshine. Wind was perfect for most of the afternoon, strong from the South. At L&D 14 you want a North or South wind, otherwise you end up with nothing but butt shots. I think I might go back Friday, but we really need more snow on the ground and more ice on the river.
Trumpeter Swan
2.5 year of Juvenile
American White Pelican
Not all fishing passes are successful. I like it when they missed, as it brings several other eagles into the action. This is 1 pound gizzard shad.
Who want to go photograph eagles soon?
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!
Life is good and I am blessed!
Kent
I watched and photographed this Great Grey Owl (GGO) three different times. This is the same as as in the snowy previous post. I was driving to next location when I spotted this owl hunting. So I got ahead of it and setup on it’s favorite hunting perch and let it come to me.
Next up a hunting series with a successful catch!
Thanks for stopping by and taking a look!
Life is good and I am blessed!
Kent
Last year I went up to Sax Zim Bog in MN to try and photograph a Great Grey Owl (GGO) that had been on my bucket list forever. That 2024 trip write up here: Great Gray Owls.
So this year, I headed back to North Eastern MN to find a Boreal Owl (Lifer). Every once in a while there is an “Owl Irruption”. The last irruption was 2010. An irruption is caused by a mild winter, followed by a larger than normal hatch from a very successful breeding season. That followed by a colder winter than normal forces migration of sorts due to fluctuations in their food supply This year, winter 2025 is an Irruption year for both Boreal and Great Grays.