Many of us despise the disastrous effects of barbed wire fences on birds and other wildlife and I share that view. But maybe it’s a more nuanced issue than some of us believe. Could it be that barbed wire fences have a more positive overall effect on some species than negative?
I believe this first image may be only time I’ve ever managed a decent shot of an owl of any species during the landing process.
Three days ago I stopped and talked to friend Jerry Ellison along the refuge road at Farmington and he informed me he’d photographed a cooperative Barn Owl at dawn.
I almost didn’t go shooting yesterday because birds have been slow but one of my mantras is “you never know unless you go”, so go I went. I’m very glad I did.
I realize that Great Horned Owls have the most extensive range of any American Owl but this one still surprised me a little.
I never saw this Burrowing Owl with prey but he always seemed to have a bloody beak and he was usually hungry for more.
As viewers we almost never know what it really took for the photographer to get that shot we like so much.
Photographing birds is often a game of playing the odds. Sometimes you win and sometimes you lose.
This past spring and early summer SEO’s were ubiquitous in the Promontory area (“Owl Alley”). It was the most dense and longest-lasting concentration of the species I’ve ever experienced…
Sometimes I’m OK with a little clutter in my images, especially when the main subject is as cute as this one.
This adult Great Horned Owl at Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge yesterday morning surprised me on several levels.
