{"id":15054,"date":"2013-05-07T05:45:11","date_gmt":"2013-05-07T11:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=15054"},"modified":"2013-05-07T12:47:14","modified_gmt":"2013-05-07T18:47:14","slug":"a-glimmer-of-hope-for-our-barn-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/a-glimmer-of-hope-for-our-barn-owls\/","title":{"rendered":"A Glimmer Of Hope For Our Barn Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I heard some very good news on the Barn Owl front recently.\u00a0\u00a0Hawkwatch International reports\u00a0that a pair of Barn Owls has taken up residence in one of the kestrel nest boxes that HI\u00a0keeps an eye on\u00a0and they have laid 5 eggs!\u00a0 This particular box has an entrance hole slightly larger than is typical for a kestrel box and that was just enough to accommodate the owls.<\/p>\n<p>I scoped out this box from a safe distance with my lens\u00a0recently but couldn’t see the owls inside because the light was so contrasty.\u00a0 But I’m sure they were there and\u00a0I’m delighted.<\/p>\n<p> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"15055\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/a-glimmer-of-hope-for-our-barn-owls\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"900,708\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{"aperture":"8","credit":"","camera":"Canon EOS 40D","caption":"","created_timestamp":"1203416323","copyright":"","focal_length":"700","iso":"400","shutter_speed":"0.0005","title":""}\" data-image-title=\"barn owl 0708 ron dudley\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley-300x236.jpg\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley.jpg\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-15055\" alt=\"barn owl 0708 ron dudley\" src=\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley.jpg\" width=\"900\" height=\"708\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley.jpg 900w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley-300x236.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley-150x118.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/barn-owl-0708-ron-dudley-400x314.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 900px) 100vw, 900px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><em><strong>1\/2000, f\/8, ISO 400, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">That news was the inspiration for this post – a photo of a Barn Owl in flight that I took in the general\u00a0vicinity of that same\u00a0nest box\u00a0a few years ago.\u00a0 Since many of these owls didn’t survive our recent devastatingly harsh winter I couldn’t be happier to hear that these birds are well on their way to raising a family.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ron<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><em>Note:\u00a0 I may have been mistaken in referring to this nest box as a “kestrel box”.\u00a0\u00a0 See my reply to Louise Shimmel’s comment below.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I heard some very good news on the Barn Owl front recently. Hawkwatch International reports that a pair of Barn Owls has taken up residence in one of the kestrel nest boxes that HI keeps an eye on and they have laid 5 eggs! <\/p>\n<p> <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/07\/a-glimmer-of-hope-for-our-barn-owls\/\"><span>Continue reading<\/span><i class=\"crycon-right-dir\"><\/i><\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[344,334],"tags":[45,146,1432,228,309,311],"class_list":["post-15054","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barn-owls","category-birds","tag-barn-owl","tag-flight","tag-hawkwatch-international","tag-nest","tag-tyto-alba","tag-utah-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1zzJh-3UO","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15054"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15054\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15054"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15054"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15054"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}