{"id":21793,"date":"2014-01-31T05:55:10","date_gmt":"2014-01-31T12:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=21793"},"modified":"2014-01-31T05:55:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-31T12:55:10","slug":"short-eared-owl-flight-sequence-in-habitat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/31\/short-eared-owl-flight-sequence-in-habitat\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared Owl Flight Sequence In Habitat"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short-eared Owls are a favorite subject of mine and I particularly enjoy flight sequences that highlight natural\u00a0habitat.<\/p>\n

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This sagebrush\/grass mix is classic habitat for these owls in southwest Montana and\u00a0when he landed this male would\u00a0often choose one of the low-growing sagebrush plants as his perch.\u00a0 He would\u00a0typically land close to the nest\u00a0(at the base of another nearby sagebrush)\u00a0when he took a\u00a0break from hunting, presumably so he could keep watch\u00a0over his family.<\/p>\n

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When he’d take off on another hunting foray he would\u00a0sometimes fly low over the nest before he left the immediate area which gave me a good opportunity for flight shots that included habitat instead of plain sky or out of focus mountains in the\u00a0background.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0This time I was able to get seven sharp shots with wing positions I liked but two of them were nearly identical so I’ve left one of them out of this sequence.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0With their feet hanging\u00a0in this position they often\u00a0remind me of rabbit’s feet.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0This is the wing position that too often hides the face but this time I was far enough in front of the owl to prevent that.<\/p>\n

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This is 13 frames after the first shot and the bird has still gained very little elevation.\u00a0 The nest it will inspect as it passes is out of frame to the left.<\/p>\n

The light was marginal for these flight shots and I was pushing the noise limits of my Canon 7D at ISO 640 with a relatively dark background but anytime I can keep focus locked on a raptor in flight with a lower background this close to the bird I’m a happy photographer.<\/p>\n

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

Short-eared Owls are a favorite subject of mine and I particularly enjoy flight sequences that highlight habitat.<\/p>\n

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