Great Horned Owl

DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
edited September 17, 2005 in Wildlife
How could I miss? The owl was about 3 feet away no less! This is how you can miss. Dim light under the eaves. Owl perched on woman's arm. Woman is very enthusiastically talking about said owl. Woman moves entire body while talking enthusiastically. Owl finally goes to sleep! (Heard it all before). So I managed to get one or two that appear to be sharp and in focus. Never dreamed I might be "too" close to the owl to use the entire zoom length of my F828!

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  • bfjrbfjr Registered Users Posts: 10,980 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Dee real good, really good thumb.gif
    great eyes :wow

    Was it a pet ??
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Palo Alto Airport Day
    bfjr wrote:
    Dee real good, really good thumb.gif
    great eyes :wow

    Was it a pet ??

    Someone in another local forum posted a thread about Palo Alto Airport Day and when I checked last years photo gallery I saw some birds. Sure enough they were back.

    The group: Sky Hunters

    Here's the blurb about the great horned owl: "The heaviest and most common of our local owl species dominates the night skies. This non-releasable Great Horned Owl was born in 1991 and is on the permit with Wildlife Rescue, Inc. He suffers from brain damage caused by secondary poisoning received as a young bird. Adults and children alike are awed by this beautiful bird with his calm presence and very important lesson on putting poison into our environment."
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  • KhaosKhaos Registered Users Posts: 2,435 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Such mesmerizing eyes.
  • HarrybHarryb Registered Users, Retired Mod Posts: 22,708 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Outstanding shots Dee. clap.gif
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  • jwearjwear Registered Users Posts: 8,013 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    great shots Dee thumb.gif like your challenge shot alsoclap.gif
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Laughing.gif, Thanks!
    jwear wrote:
    great shots Dee thumb.gif like your challenge shot alsoclap.gif

    My hubby thinks the challenge shot is great, my daughter's horrified, a friend loves my smile!

    At my age, the heck with it! I had to use a high ISO cause it was do gray and dreary and the window is high giving me that halloween flashlight under the chin look. Being an October baby, what the heck! And I love trees! rolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gifrolleyes1.gif
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  • DeeDee Registered Users Posts: 2,981 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Thanks Khaos and Harry
    I was beside myself! My poor hubby was getting so bored waiting for me to finish or run out of memory whichever came first! What an opportunity to see this magnificent owl out in the open, instead of behind bars or glass! He was very well behaved too!

    The Kestrel kind of freaked out when I raised the camera, and the person holding it warned me the bird would be a little upset, but it settled down. The owl just gave me this "look." Then decided, ho hum, another Sony...
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  • ginger_55ginger_55 Registered Users Posts: 8,416 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Cool owl. I have yet to see one. I can't stand to sit through those talks.

    I will have to look at your challenge photo!

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  • Trish323Trish323 Registered Users Posts: 908 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    I love 'emthumb.gif Great shots...the only one I ever saw was in my yard way up high..at dusk...so the shot was lousy.. nice to see those beautiful eyes up close!
  • RohirrimRohirrim Registered Users Posts: 1,889 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Beautiful shots Dee. The second one is especially nice, very sharpthumb.gif
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  • iceman17iceman17 Registered Users Posts: 246 Major grins
    edited September 17, 2005
    Fantastic shots,clear,crisp,sharp,and close.Wonderful capture on the eyes.Ive only got close to the Great horned Owl at a zoo.The rest of my Great horned,Great Gray and Northern Hawk Owl shots have been in the wild and were at such a distance that ive had to use full zoom and then crop to 50 or 100% just to get a good look at them.

    It's good to see one up close and personalclap.gifclap.gif ..ice
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    but they made me give it back.
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