Great Grey Owls (7 pics)

Angelo

nice set D. #1 is particularly good, especially how that cable cap mimics the owls mask. any way you can make the tree branches disappear?

Seamus

Great shots Dave


Shay

davev

Angelo wrote:

nice set D. #1 is particularly good, especially how that cable cap mimics the owls mask. any way you can make the tree branches disappear?

Thanks Angelo.

Yeah, I can clean it up a bit.




Thanks for looking.

dave.

davev

shay wrote:

Great shots Dave


Shay

Thanks Shay.

dave.

gubbs

Beautiful shots

If anyone's interested, National Geographic recently did an article on Great Grey Owls, I think it was in the Feb magazine.

wxwax

gubbs wrote:

Beautiful shots

If anyone's interested, National Geographic recently did an article on Great Grey Owls, I think it was in the Feb magazine.

Good stuff. And Dave's pics compare favorably with any in that article, and IMHO some are better. Nice job Davev!

gubbs

wxwax wrote:

Good stuff. And Dave's pics compare favorably with any in that article, and IMHO some are better. Nice job Davev!

Yep, I agree

The guy in the article warned that the owls get pretty aggresive when they have young and will attack anything that approaches the nest (even bears!). He compared an attack to been hit with a piece of 2x2 with nails sticking out of it!

davev

wxwax wrote:

Good stuff. And Dave's pics compare favorably with any in that article, and IMHO some are better. Nice job Davev!

sid, you're to kind. Thanks.

dave.

davev

gubbs wrote:

Yep, I agree

The guy in the article warned that the owls get pretty aggresive when they have young and will attack anything that approaches the nest (even bears!). He compared an attack to been hit with a piece of 2x2 with nails sticking out of it!

Thanks for the link.

I got pretty close to a couple of them. They didn't seem to mind it.
I think that these owls are getting used to humans by now. The news has
been talking about them weekly, and a lot of folks have been taking their pictures.
Every time we stopped the car to take a picture, at least one more car
stopped to do the same thing.

Thanks again gubbs.

dave.

System

excellent set of shots, dave... love owls and can't remember when i last saw one, lol. i moved to wyoming a couple of years ago and dunno if we even have any around here
thanks for sharing these,
sash

davev

sash wrote:

excellent set of shots, dave... love owls and can't remember when i last saw one, lol. i moved to wyoming a couple of years ago and dunno if we even have any around here
thanks for sharing these,
sash

Thanks for looking sash.

dave.

Steve Cavigliano

Very nice Dave I have checked out quite a few Great Gray pics lately and i have to agree with Sid and Gubbs, yours are right up there


Good color, very sharp and really nice detail.


Thanks for sharing them,
Steve

Kirwin

Fantastic series. Partial to image 1... great texture and tones. Thanks for sharin'.

davev wrote:

We drove about 90 miles north to find a Great Grey Owl.
We found 7. I got shots of 5 of them.

D Reb with the Sigma 80-400 o.s.

#1




#2




Me getting a pic of # 3 (taken with a Canon S1 IS with 1.6 t.c.)




The pic that I was taking. #3



#4 Sitting on a post, next to a 2 lane blacktop road. I was 15 feet from it.



#5. He's cleaning up.



#5. Done cleaning, just kickin back.




Well, that's about it.
Thanks for looking.

dave.

davev

Steve Cavigliano wrote:

Very nice Dave I have checked out quite a few Great Gray pics lately and i have to agree with Sid and Gubbs, yours are right up there
Good color, very sharp and really nice detail.
Thanks for sharing them,
Steve

Thanks for looking Steve. I appreciate the comments.

dave.

davev

Kirwin wrote:

Fantastic series. Partial to image 1... great texture and tones. Thanks for sharin'.

Thanks Kirwin. I'm glad folks enjoyed looking at them.

dave.