A couple of days ago, the female great horned owl was perched on a broken limb and she took off, half a second later there were some squealing. We walked around and found her on the ground, but she was unsuccessful on this attempt. The male owl may have been the one with the prey as we heard the squealing continue a few minutes after this photo
We were hoping to capture a parent bringing in a meal for the great horned owlets at our state park, but they already had a meal waiting for them. This owlet's eyes appear to be either infected or something, its eyes has been cloudy since it has opened its eyes. Tonight while consuming the rat, its eyes was closed throughout the process
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Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/1000 500
Nowhere near as cool as the owl shot from webmstrk9
Sony ILCE-1
FE 600mm F4 GM OSS
ƒ/4.0 600.0 mm 1/320 2000
I have been experimenting with video a little more. I didn't take too many stills of the owl. It flew from perch to perch calling to its mate. Video is straight out of camera and it shows. I kind of wish we had an A1 video thread.
webmstrk9 wrote:
We were hoping to capture a parent bringing in a meal for the great horned owlets at our state park, but they already had a meal waiting for them. This owlet's eyes appear to be either infected or something, its eyes has been cloudy since it has opened its eyes. Tonight while consuming the rat, its eyes was closed throughout the process
Definitely something going on with its eyes. Headed out there this morning.
A couple more images of the aurora nights in Churchill, Manitoba shot by my wife. Noise on the a1 was almost nonexistent with proper exposure up through ISO 2000 and only needed a slight tap of noise reduction at ISO 5000. What a spectacular camera! Both shots with the Sigma 14-24/2.8 Art.
