Owls... Share Your Owl Photos

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I found this Little Owl last year. I don't think that it was pleased to see me! D7200, sigma 150-600, f/11, 1/2000 ISO 1600
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There are a few regional wildlife management areas that I try to visit at least a couple of times a year, take a slow drive around to see what's out and about. Here's an image from one of those where I'd photographed wading birds like Avocets, Stilts and the like several times but on this autumn day I came across a small group of Short Eared Owls that would fly around hunting a bit and then stand on dirt piles stretching their wings in the steady breeze. This was one of those days where they didn't seem to mind me being around and I ended up with a lot of images of them posing like this:

Nikon D1H, 600mm f/5.6 manual focus P lens, @f/5.6, 1/60", ISO 320.

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Fledgling Great Gray Owl. I'd been visiting this particular nesting area fairly often, mostly watching the parents come in to feed the chicks in the nest when one morning one, then another fluffy balls of feathers came tumbling out of the nest, sorted them selves out and hopped over to nearby logs. Here's one just figuring out life outside the nest. A couple of days later they'd hopped up onto leaning deadfall trees and not long after that were perched up in surrounding trees and then flying on their own.

Nikon D2X, 600mm f/4 AF-S D lens @f/4, 1/60", ISO 320

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DRwyoming said:
I'm fascinated by owls of every shape and size and love it when I can find one in the wild to photograph. Sometimes I find them by noticing small birds mobbing them and follow the racket, sometimes I spot likely owl nests throughout the year, especially if there's signs of recent white wash and owl pellets on the ground and sometimes I cruise around likely owl habitat in late winter on cross country skis and notice where owls are nesting for the year. But I sure love capturing images of owls any time of year.

Here's a Burrowing Owl shot by the roadside in Central Washington who was kind enough to pose for me for a while in soft evening light.

600mm f/4 with TC-14 @850mm, f/5.6, 1/200", ISO 160

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So what Owls are other folks seeing and capturing on their sensors?
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Great Burrowing Owl shot. We usually get them in Wind Cave NP but they didn't return this season.
 
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DRwyoming said:
Here's one from a while back.... OK a long while back as in 2007 :)

Snowy Owl, Boundary Bay B.C.

Nikon D2X, 600mm f/4 + TC 14, 850mm, f/5.6, 1/640", ISO 200

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Dave, Some images are worth going back too ~ it just has that something that you could never repeat or that you have not seen since! Beaut Snowy! His is giving you the EYE!
 
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Callie said:
Dave, Some images are worth going back too ~ it just has that something that you could never repeat or that you have not seen since! Beaut Snowy! His is giving you the EYE!
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Thanks Callie, yeah these threads have encouraged me to look back into my files and it's fun coming across images that I haven't looked at in a long time :)
 
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DRwyoming said:
I'm fascinated by owls of every shape and size and love it when I can find one in the wild to photograph. Sometimes I find them by noticing small birds mobbing them and follow the racket, sometimes I spot likely owl nests throughout the year, especially if there's signs of recent white wash and owl pellets on the ground and sometimes I cruise around likely owl habitat in late winter on cross country skis and notice where owls are nesting for the year. But I sure love capturing images of owls any time of year.

Here's a Burrowing Owl shot by the roadside in Central Washington who was kind enough to pose for me for a while in soft evening light.

600mm f/4 with TC-14 @850mm, f/5.6, 1/200", ISO 160

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So what Owls are other folks seeing and capturing on their sensors?
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Great shot! Unfortunately, I never see owls in my neck of the woods although I am sure they are around as I hear occasional barn owls (I assume) as there are a couple of old barns near me. I will keep searching, they are beautiful!
 
Here is another live action, night time shot of a Great Horned Owl with no flash. So I thought of this thread or the backyard thread.
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f/5.6 ISO4000 2.5 seconds @500mm with about 30% noise reduction in Topaz Denoise AI
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