{"id":100687,"date":"2021-07-26T05:57:12","date_gmt":"2021-07-26T11:57:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=100687"},"modified":"2021-07-26T06:40:15","modified_gmt":"2021-07-26T12:40:15","slug":"ground-hunting-short-eared-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2021\/07\/26\/ground-hunting-short-eared-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Ground Hunting Short-eared Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

Given the conditions I was particularly pleased to get this one sharp.<\/p>\n

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1\/500, f\/7.1, ISO 800, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

Short-eared Owls hunt primarily on the wing and less often from elevated perches but this one was hunting on the ground. “He” had particular interest in a small brush pile directly in front of him but after watching it carefully for some time he lost interest in it and gave me this over the shoulder pose. It was very early in the morning and he was in the deep shade of a shadow cast by a nearby mountain. I was very close to him, so close I’d removed my teleconverter but he literally ignored me, probably because the relative darkness gave him a sense of security.<\/p>\n

The lack of light slowed my shutter speed to the point that I expected many of my images of him to be soft. My shaky hands, caused by essential tremor<\/a><\/span><\/span> (especially when I get excited, as I was while I was so close to this owl), cause me to attempt to shoot at higher shutter speeds than most photographers if I have enough light to do it. But this time I didn’t so I was pleasantly surprised when most of my photos of him were sharp to very sharp.<\/p>\n

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Due to mostly unfortunate circumstances involving cloudy weather, wildfire smoke, stupidly high temperatures and minor health issues it’s been a while since I’ve been out shooting so I’ve been posting older photos more often than I usually do (this one was taken in Idaho in June of 2016). Hopefully that will change soon but the forecast for this week doesn’t give me a lot of optimism.<\/p>\n

Yes, I’m a little discouraged.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Note: Like Katharine Hepburn I inherited essential tremor from the paternal side of my family. It’s a very common medical condition that sometimes causes head shaking, as it did in Hepburn’s case. Thankfully I don’t have head tremors, it only affects my hands. As you might expect I haven’t eaten soup in public for years… \ud83d\ude42<\/em><\/p>\n

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Given the conditions I was particularly pleased to get this one sharp.<\/p>\n

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