Category: Owls
A War Of Wills With A Short-eared Owl And I Won
I have a stubborn streak that occasionally gets me into trouble but every once in a while it pays off.
Barn Owls In Flight – A Huge Motivator For Learning Good Technique
If anything will give a bird photographer motivation to learn the techniques of photographing birds in flight it’s Barn Owls flying during daytime.
Red-naped Sapsucker Removing Wood Chips And Fecal Sac From Nest Cavity (+ a barbed wire owl update)
Sapsuckers perform some interesting behaviors during nesting season and the pair I photographed three days ago in the Uinta Mountains was no exception.
Young Short-eared Owl Learning To Hunt From Perches
Short-eared Owls often hunt from perches instead of on the wing and it’s a technique that must be learned.
Short-eared Owl – An Image Can Be Cropped Deceptively
Creative cropping of an image can sometimes have more negative effects than positive ones.
Short-eared Owl Siblings Parallaxing (and an update on the owl hung up on barbed wire)
Normally it’s my practice to avoid posting the same species two days in a row. But in celebration of the (unexpected) good news about the juvenile Short-eared Owl we rescued from barbed wire two days ago I decided to make an exception. After all, I think we all prefer our owls happy and acting normally rather than hanging from barbed wire and in despair.
Fledgling Short-eared Owl Wing Stretch
I continue to make the occasional rookie mistake when photographing birds in the field but this time I still like the results.
Short-eared Owl Takeoff And Flight – A Six Image Series
It isn’t often that I can stay locked on to a bird in flight for this many images after takeoff.
Idaho Short-eared Owl
Technically this is an Idaho owl but I found it yesterday morning only about a mile from the Montana border.
Short-eared Owl Fledglings Galore!
I’ve said before that this has been a banner year for breeding Short-eared Owls in northern Utah. Here’s more proof.
Burrowing Owl Takeoff (and my first fledglings of the year)
I’ve been watching for Burrowing Owl chicks in northern Utah for a couple of weeks with no luck until yesterday morning.
Short-eared Owl Takeoff In My Direction
One of the many variables one must deal with when photographing birds at takeoff is direction of flight.
Fledgling Short-eared Owl
I’ve never had such a good look at a fledgling Short-eared Owl as I did yesterday morning. At this stage they look quite different from the adults.
Two Creative Hunting Techniques From an Owl And A Hawk
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A War Of Wills With A Short-eared Owl And I Won
I have a stubborn streak that occasionally gets me into trouble but every once in a while it pays off.
Barn Owls In Flight – A Huge Motivator For Learning Good Technique
If anything will give a bird photographer motivation to learn the techniques of photographing birds in flight it’s Barn Owls flying during daytime.
Red-naped Sapsucker Removing Wood Chips And Fecal Sac From Nest Cavity (+ a barbed wire owl update)
Sapsuckers perform some interesting behaviors during nesting season and the pair I photographed three days ago in the Uinta Mountains was no exception.
Young Short-eared Owl Learning To Hunt From Perches
Short-eared Owls often hunt from perches instead of on the wing and it’s a technique that must be learned.
Short-eared Owl – An Image Can Be Cropped Deceptively
Creative cropping of an image can sometimes have more negative effects than positive ones.
Short-eared Owl Siblings Parallaxing (and an update on the owl hung up on barbed wire)
Normally it’s my practice to avoid posting the same species two days in a row. But in celebration of the (unexpected) good news about the juvenile Short-eared Owl we rescued from barbed wire two days ago I decided to make an exception. After all, I think we all prefer our owls happy and acting normally rather than hanging from barbed wire and in despair.
Fledgling Short-eared Owl Wing Stretch
I continue to make the occasional rookie mistake when photographing birds in the field but this time I still like the results.
Short-eared Owl Takeoff And Flight – A Six Image Series
It isn’t often that I can stay locked on to a bird in flight for this many images after takeoff.
Idaho Short-eared Owl
Technically this is an Idaho owl but I found it yesterday morning only about a mile from the Montana border.
Short-eared Owl Fledglings Galore!
I’ve said before that this has been a banner year for breeding Short-eared Owls in northern Utah. Here’s more proof.
Burrowing Owl Takeoff (and my first fledglings of the year)
I’ve been watching for Burrowing Owl chicks in northern Utah for a couple of weeks with no luck until yesterday morning.
Short-eared Owl Takeoff In My Direction
One of the many variables one must deal with when photographing birds at takeoff is direction of flight.
Fledgling Short-eared Owl
I’ve never had such a good look at a fledgling Short-eared Owl as I did yesterday morning. At this stage they look quite different from the adults.
