arbitrage wrote:
Snow day...not much going on in the yard but took a few snaps...
Great snow snaps Geoff.
Is the 3rd a Junco?
I pick it as series favorite.
I think we have them here but above 4000 feet.
We're going 'owling' above 5000 feet this weekend hoping for the 1:1,000,000 Saw-whett. Might
see a Junco while up in the clouds.
Thank you MM!I am very happy! Especially wanted to thank you for your kind support and inspiration. Your photostream has been beautiful and educational for nature photography.
MedicineMan404 wrote:
Awesome shots Dora! and congratulations on your long awaited 500PF. I know you are happy!
Just curious how there is so many pics of owls. I have lived in the colorado mountains for 20 years and spend a lot of time in the woods and I have only seen an owl once.
Are people baiting or finding info about locations of nests?
I think owls are everywhere but they are king of camo and hiding.
Some owls though come out and play in the daytime.
I know it took me 18 months of looking before imaging my first owl.
From a few days ago when I was able to get out of the cold for a bit. It's full frame and with the 1.4tc attached
Eric
Camera Nikon NIKON D850
Lens AF-S Nikkor 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR
ISO 2200
Focal Length 700.0 mm (700.0 mm in 35mm)
Aperture f/8
Exposure Time 0.0002s (1/5000)
No baiting for me. Just trying to find information about their whereabouts.
Here’s a short eared owl I found recently on Amherst Island, Canada. They were maybe 25-30 around the same field. Pure luck.
mysh wrote:
Just curious how there is so many pics of owls. I have lived in the colorado mountains for 20 years and spend a lot of time in the woods and I have only seen an owl once.
Are people baiting or finding info about locations of nests?
mysh wrote:
Just curious how there is so many pics of owls. I have lived in the colorado mountains for 20 years and spend a lot of time in the woods and I have only seen an owl once.
Are people baiting or finding info about locations of nests?
Snowy's winter in this area and depending on the year quite a few of them. Since they like dunes and open tundra like areas they are easy to spot and if you go often enough you'll get one close enough for a few good photos. No baiting or revealing of nests, just the knowledge that they really like this particular area to winter in.
Now these aren’t as sharp as I'd like.. kind of a long story but I was using a tripod shooting the snowy in the dunes (see previous post). Normally I'd be using my gimbal tripod head but it recently broke so I had a regular ball head. When the owl jump up and flew away the ball head wasn't really loose enough to track so I was moving the entire tripod as I tried
One from last Sunday's heavy snow... close to a shot that I've been pursuing for a while, just wished that this little one would have walked into the prairie that extends away from the woods.
Taken yesterday at the Skagit Wildlife Area, with the D5 and the 500mm PF. The weather and light were not very good, but on the positive side, I had the whole area pretty much to myself. The second image is pretty heavily cropped. Perhaps I should have taken the D500 body...
Keith W.
1. Bald Eagle, f/5.6, 1/2500 sec, ISO 2500
2. Generational encounter, f/5.6, 1/2500 sec, ISO 1100
