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I've had these for 5 yrs and didn't want to deal with the noise from my old canon 7d. Going through old stuff with the extra time, covid, I found these and now I'm posting them. I was on this Northern Pygmy Owl, when it went to ground. I don't know if it just caught this rodent or if it was cached. Light was falling fast. You can see my shutter speeds and ISO. It was going to town on the rodent, looking up and all around as it consumed the rodent. The last image, it flew up to a limb with prey and looked around. The light was so low, I went to the pop up flash to get the image, hardly ever using flash before on a bird. I think this may be the last time I used a flash on a bird. Then it went into a small 15 ft. dense fir, which turned out to be a good move. As I was walking to my car, close by, I saw why it was so wary. A Barn Owl came through hunting right where the pygmy was. Thanks for looking.
Rex

Sep 26, 2020 at 09:45 PM

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p.1 #2 · p.1 #2 · Pygmy and Prey

Beauties Rex, even though they were taken with a stinkin' noisy 7D.

Tony

Sep 26, 2020 at 09:47 PM

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p.1 #3 · p.1 #3 · Pygmy and Prey

Outstanding series. Interesting to see the size of the prey relative to the owl.

Cheers,

George

Sep 27, 2020 at 04:53 AM

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p.1 #4 · p.1 #4 · Pygmy and Prey

Excellent set Rex. Did you have your flash on a bracket to avoid lighting up the retina? I hope you are getting out some as it's good for the mind

Morris

Sep 27, 2020 at 07:16 AM

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p.1 #5 · p.1 #5 · Pygmy and Prey

Nice Rex! Since recently getting DeNoise AI I'm revisiting some old files too.

Sep 27, 2020 at 07:44 AM

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p.1 #6 · p.1 #6 · Pygmy and Prey

The low light condition render the pupils of the owl’s eyes large - I love it! You did a great job capturing those, Rex! For web presentation, noise levels do not matter much but again, a great noise reduction software will make it better.

Joshua

Sep 27, 2020 at 08:54 AM

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p.1 #7 · p.1 #7 · Pygmy and Prey

Imagemaster wrote:
Beauties Rex, even though they were taken with a stinkin' noisy 7D.

Tony
Thank you, Tony. It served me well. Enough.

Rex

Sep 27, 2020 at 01:43 PM

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Excellent set Rex !

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Sep 27, 2020 at 01:53 PM

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Awesome behavioral shots of the bird. How tiny they when compared to rodent prey here. TFS

- Faizan

Sep 27, 2020 at 02:29 PM

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p.1 #10 · p.1 #10 · Pygmy and Prey

Rex,

I still have to see a pygmy owl up close and in person.

This came out real nice.

Thank you for sharing

dan

Sep 27, 2020 at 05:08 PM

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p.1 #11 · p.1 #11 · Pygmy and Prey

Very nice Rex.

Birdie

Sep 27, 2020 at 08:08 PM

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p.1 #12 · p.1 #12 · Pygmy and Prey

What a great series. Especially under those conditions.

Sep 28, 2020 at 08:54 AM

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George Welch wrote:
Outstanding series. Interesting to see the size of the prey relative to the owl.

Cheers,

George
Thank you George. they take on even bigger prey.
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morris wrote:
Excellent set Rex. Did you have your flash on a bracket to avoid lighting up the retina? I hope you are getting out some as it's good for the mind

Morris
Thanks much Morris. I just hit the pop up flash on the last image, as a last resort. I had to fix the red eyes. I'm getting out some. The smoke really tied us up for a few weeks.

Rex

Sep 28, 2020 at 05:47 PM

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p.1 #14 · p.1 #14 · Pygmy and Prey

Top notch set Rex, wish I had some of these hanging around in an old HD.

Sep 28, 2020 at 05:48 PM

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p.1 #15 · p.1 #15 · Pygmy and Prey

Terrific set, Rex!

Sep 28, 2020 at 06:08 PM

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p.1 #16 · p.1 #16 · Pygmy and Prey

Beauties Rex-looks quite sharp for such slow shutter speeds-well done.

Sep 28, 2020 at 11:25 PM

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Nice work, Rex.

Pius

Sep 29, 2020 at 02:53 PM

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Colin F wrote:
Nice Rex! Since recently getting DeNoise AI I'm revisiting some old files too.
Thank you, Colin.
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AGeoJO wrote:
The low light condition render the pupils of the owl’s eyes large - I love it! You did a great job capturing those, Rex! For web presentation, noise levels do not matter much but again, a great noise reduction software will make it better.

Joshua
Thank you Joshua. I had actually done some NR on these a few years ago and forgot about them. But recently tried different program.

Rex

Sep 30, 2020 at 03:21 PM

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p.1 #19 · p.1 #19 · Pygmy and Prey

Wonderful photos. Turned out amazingly well considering it was with a 7D (not even MII), high ISO and low shutter speeds. Well done!

Sep 30, 2020 at 07:08 PM

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p.1 #20 · p.1 #20 · Pygmy and Prey

Ronny Olsson wrote:
Excellent set Rex !

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thank you, Ronnie.
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ox0312 wrote:
Awesome behavioral shots of the bird. How tiny they when compared to rodent prey here. TFS

- Faizan
Thank you Faizan. sometimes they go after bigger prey.
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riokid wrote:
Rex,
I still have to see a pygmy owl up close and in person.

This came out real nice.

Thank you for sharing

dan
thanks much Dan and I hope you get see one to your liking.

Rex

Sep 30, 2020 at 09:34 PM

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