{"id":14929,"date":"2013-05-02T03:00:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T09:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=14929"},"modified":"2013-05-01T17:21:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-01T23:21:21","slug":"short-eared-owl-in-flight-with-prey-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/02\/short-eared-owl-in-flight-with-prey-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared Owl In Flight With Prey"},"content":{"rendered":"

Four days ago I visited Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge and saw my first Short-eared Owls of the season.\u00a0 Two of them!\u00a0\u00a0 I didn’t get any photos of either one but\u00a0I’ll admit that the experience got my SEO juices flowing again\u00a0so last night I reviewed some of my previous images (joyfully reliving some of my experiences with them) and ran across this series of three shots that I haven’t posted before.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0sequence is from the summer of 2010 in southwest Montana.\u00a0\u00a0This\u00a0adult male\u00a0was kept busy hunting and delivering voles to his family of two chicks and the female on the nest.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0The first two images are quite similar but this one shows the top of the left wing better and includes some of the sagebrush flats in the background at the bottom of the frame…<\/p>\n

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\u00a0while this image, two clicks later, has slightly more direct eye contact and lacks the greens of the sagebrush at bottom.<\/p>\n

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In the last image the wings are almost in a\u00a0horizontal position.<\/p>\n

Through all of this past bitterly cold and very long\u00a0winter one of the things that kept me going was thoughts and memories of “my” Montana owls, both Great Horned and Short-eared.\u00a0 And yes, I’m already planning summer trips to visit them again.<\/p>\n

Can hardly wait…<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This sequence is from the summer of 2010 in southwest Montana. The adult male was kept busy hunting and delivering voles to his family of two chicks and the female on the nest.<\/p>\n

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