Where countryside and civilization meet
Once was wild
Licorice Allsorts eyes
I spy with my little eye
A welcome addition to our Christmas Bird Count
Always a treat
Northern Pygmy-owl
A most welcome find
Snowy Owl number 5
Two male Snowy Owls in the same field
You never know where you'll see a Snowy Owl
Juvenile Northern Goshawk, feeding
Curious glance from a Great Horned Owl
Two Tropical Screech Owls, Caroni Swamp, Trinidad
A cute, young face
Bald Eagle after a cooling hosepipe shower
Burrowing Owl in the wild
Great Gray Owl #1
Great Gray Owl #2
Great Gray Owl, watching and listening
Great Gray Owl hunting
Bald Eagle getting a hosepipe shower
Great Gray Owl, highly zoomed
Great Gray Owl on the hunt
Far, far away
Great Gray Owl
Burrowing owl in the wild
Great Gray Owl
Sleepy Great Horned Owl
One of yesterday's Great Horned Owls
Almost missed, but gratefully seen
Ferruginous Hawk / Buteo regalis
Great Horned Owlet
Great Horned Owlet
Swainson's Hawk take-off
Enjoying a good meal
Ferruginous Hawk
Ferruginous Hawks - now safely grown and gone
A classic light/intermediate-morph adult Swainson'…
Osprey number 2 / Pandion haliaetus
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
I LOVE owls - in case you didn't know : )
How dare you take a photo of me looking like this?
Sleepy Barn Owl
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
Swainson's Hawk watching for its next snack
Two-month-old American Kestrel
Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl
Licorice Allsorts (candy) eyes
Male Snowy Owl
Male Snowy Owl
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Prairie Falcon - Status: SENSITIVE, Species of Spe…
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Short-eared Owl
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Snowy Owl 1st year male, Snowy Owl Prowl 2019
Short-eared Owl / Asio flammeus
Long-eared Owl / Asio otus
Another surprise on another gloomy day
Popcan-sized Northern Pygmy-owl, from January 2015
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Barn Owl
One of a pair
Shadows
Yesterday's absolute treat - the size of your fist…
After a busy night of hunting
A favourite subject with photographers
Swainson's Hawk
Yesterday's Bald Eagle
Bald Eagle / Haliaeetus leucocephalus
Merlin
Great Horned Owl juvenile
Yesterday's Great Horned Owl
Great Horned Owl on a fence post
Red-tailed Hawk?
Three years later ....
Sweet young owl
Swainson's Hawk
Juvenile Swainson's Hawk
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
Swainson's Hawk juvenile
You looking at me, lady?
Sleepy Short-eared Owl
Short-eared Owl
Spiked hairdo
Barn Owl
Talk about baby fluff!
Flight training with a Red-tailed Hawk
Cooling down
Curious
Time for a nap
I fell in love ....
Who can resist a Burrowing Owl?
Anyone have a comb?
Swainson's Hawk / Buteo swainsoni
A lucky find
Great Horned Owl male
One of three young owls
Watching the watchers
Yesterday's treat!
Mom and her babies
Great Horned Owl and owlet
Northern Hawk Owl with woodland bokeh
A distant shot from my archives
Female Kestrel
Turkey Vulture talons
False eyes and real eyes
01 Barred Owl
02 Bald Eagle in late afternoon sun
Northern Pygmy-owl
Always glad to see a Snowy
Meadow Vole for a late lunch
Northern Hawk Owl
Great Gray Owl, focused
Eyes fixed on supper
Burrowing Owl
Perch with a good view
Such a beautiful owl
Peacefully waiting
Great Gray Owl from 2013
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It's raining this morning - I had almost forgotten what rain looks like! The temperature is 8C (windchill 5C), and it is supposed to get up to 12C (windchill 10C) this afternoon.
Hold up your hand in front of you and clench your fist. That is how big a Northern Pygmy-owl is : ) They are beautiful, cute - and ferocious hunters. Sometimes, you see a small cluster of dead leaves or a wasp's nest hanging from a distant branch and your heart starts to beat faster with excitement. Then, usually, comes the disappointment when you realize that it's not a tiny Northern Pygmy-owl after all. Zoomed in and greatly cropped, this is just a poor quality shot, but kind of cute.
The morning of 21 November 2017 was cold and very overcast and I really did not feel like going out at all. However, I'm so glad I pushed myself out the front door, and joined friends for a birding walk in Fish Creek Park. I/we can't take any credit for finding this tiny owl, as we came across a lone photographer standing with his camera lens pointed upwards. I don't know if this owl was the same as the one I photographed on 9 November 2017, in a different part of the park.
"The Northern Pygmy-Owl may be tiny, but it’s a ferocious hunter with a taste for songbirds. These owls are mostly dark brown and white, with long tails, smoothly rounded heads, and piercing yellow eyes. They hunt during the day by sitting quietly and surprising their prey. As a defensive measure, songbirds often gather to mob sitting owls until they fly away. Mobbing songbirds can help you find these unobtrusive owls, as can listening for their call, a high-pitched series of toots." From AllAboutBirds. They also love Meadow Voles.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Pygmy-Owl/id
"This Northern Pygmy-Owl appears to have eyes in the back of its head. But why? One theory is that large false eyes may create the illusion that the owl is much bigger than its 6 and 3/4-inch size. A more current theory is that the false eyes help protect the pygmy-owl's true eyes. Small birds will mob this diurnal owl, even striking it, directing some attacks at its eyes. If the large false eyes can take the brunt of these attacks, little harm will come to the Pygmy-Owl's vulnerable true eyes." From birdnote.org.
birdnote.org/show/pygmy-owls-false-eyes
It's raining this morning - I had almost forgotten what rain looks like! The temperature is 8C (windchill 5C), and it is supposed to get up to 12C (windchill 10C) this afternoon.
Hold up your hand in front of you and clench your fist. That is how big a Northern Pygmy-owl is : ) They are beautiful, cute - and ferocious hunters. Sometimes, you see a small cluster of dead leaves or a wasp's nest hanging from a distant branch and your heart starts to beat faster with excitement. Then, usually, comes the disappointment when you realize that it's not a tiny Northern Pygmy-owl after all. Zoomed in and greatly cropped, this is just a poor quality shot, but kind of cute.
The morning of 21 November 2017 was cold and very overcast and I really did not feel like going out at all. However, I'm so glad I pushed myself out the front door, and joined friends for a birding walk in Fish Creek Park. I/we can't take any credit for finding this tiny owl, as we came across a lone photographer standing with his camera lens pointed upwards. I don't know if this owl was the same as the one I photographed on 9 November 2017, in a different part of the park.
"The Northern Pygmy-Owl may be tiny, but it’s a ferocious hunter with a taste for songbirds. These owls are mostly dark brown and white, with long tails, smoothly rounded heads, and piercing yellow eyes. They hunt during the day by sitting quietly and surprising their prey. As a defensive measure, songbirds often gather to mob sitting owls until they fly away. Mobbing songbirds can help you find these unobtrusive owls, as can listening for their call, a high-pitched series of toots." From AllAboutBirds. They also love Meadow Voles.
www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Pygmy-Owl/id
"This Northern Pygmy-Owl appears to have eyes in the back of its head. But why? One theory is that large false eyes may create the illusion that the owl is much bigger than its 6 and 3/4-inch size. A more current theory is that the false eyes help protect the pygmy-owl's true eyes. Small birds will mob this diurnal owl, even striking it, directing some attacks at its eyes. If the large false eyes can take the brunt of these attacks, little harm will come to the Pygmy-Owl's vulnerable true eyes." From birdnote.org.
birdnote.org/show/pygmy-owls-false-eyes
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