{"id":19613,"date":"2013-10-30T05:35:43","date_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:35:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=19613"},"modified":"2013-10-30T05:35:43","modified_gmt":"2013-10-30T11:35:43","slug":"short-eared-owl-carrying-a-vole-in-its-beak-for-a-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2013\/10\/30\/short-eared-owl-carrying-a-vole-in-its-beak-for-a-change\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared Owl Carrying A Vole In Its Beak (for a change)"},"content":{"rendered":"

I have many\u00a0images of Short-eared Owls carrying prey in their talons in flight but very few where they’re carrying the prey in their beak.\u00a0 This is one of them.<\/p>\n

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\"short-eared<\/a>1\/1250, f\/5.6, ISO 800, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc, natural light, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

This male had landed on the sagebrush behind him with a vole in his talons but transferred it to his beak just before he took off to deliver the meal to his family at the nest.<\/p>\n

I like the inclusion of\u00a0the sagebrush in this image because it’s such a very important component of their habitat in this area of Montana (the nest was actually at the base of a nearby sagebrush plant).\u00a0 The following summer yearling cattle (yearlings are like bovine juvenile delinquents and wreak incredible\u00a0havoc on habitat) were allowed into this area and I haven’t seen Short-eared Owls there since.<\/p>\n

I’m fairly convinced there’s a\u00a0correlation between the two events.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I have many images of Short-eared Owls carrying prey in their talons in flight but very few where they’re carrying the prey in their beak. This is one of them.<\/p>\n

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