After stopping by after work yesterday and not seeing any owls, there was already short-eared owls out and about when I arrived in the parking lot at around 5 p.m. today. Evidently they were out around 4:00 or prior to that busily hunting .
I could see the owl in the tree from the parking lot, but I like moving along. The owl stayed in the tree for a while.
Right after I started walking up the trail I saw one owl very close to the trail. Unfortunately I was not prepared and had my camera set around 1/500 or a second. The above photo has blurred wings but otherwise not too bad.
The above was also taken at 1/500 of a second.
It was getting too dark shortly after this photo above. There are two other kinds of owls at this location. A great horned owl had a lot to say tonight. We can’t get close to them at this location.
I believe at one point there were 4 short eared owls flying around in this one area of the trail. There were only 3-4 people photographing in this area. After yesterday I was thinking they may have left for Canada, but they are still here. This made my day. Have a great weekend!
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nice shots!
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Fabulous captures, Sharon, I am so jealous!!
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You need to make a road trip next year. If you spent a couple of weeks up here and were there everyday in Feb- March and there were d sad one good weather days you would probably see them. I’ve seen people with camper vans in the parking lot. They come from elsewhere and park somewhere in the area.
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That would be a really cool adventure!
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Beautiful.
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Beautiful. They would have made my day, too!
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Sometimes it’s profitable to return to “the scene of the crime”. Nice images.
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Ha! Sometimes it is and sometimes it isn’t. Thursday no sightings at all. Friday I saw some of the action.
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Excellent shots!
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