Great Horned Owl Framed By Tamarisk

Typically when I find a Great Horned Owl in a natural setting it’s so deeply buried in the tree or foliage that it can barely be seen. This is a deliberate behavior, at least in part to avoid mobbing birds of many species. Crows, for example, will invariably mob an exposed GHO, pursuing it from [...]

Great Horned Owls In The Montana Wind

I’ve posted before about the Great Horned Owls on the family farm in nw Montana. That farm is near Cut Bank, Montana which is famous (infamous) for its howling winds.

 

1/1000, f/8, ISO 500, 500 f/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in

So many of [...]