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<\/p>\nYoung Burrowing Owls are pretty awkward when they’re still learning the ropes. In this case the “rope” was a wire.<\/p>\n
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1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 1250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n This past June I spent considerable time watching and photographing a family of Burrowing Owls in Box Elder County, Utah. The young birds were constantly honing their flying, landing and perching skills and the most challenging of perches was the wire on an old barbed wire fence very near their burrow. On the wire they would often lose their balance and it was comical to watch them try to recover.<\/p>\n This bird had a stable perch but as soon as it tried to take one step to our right its right foot slipped and it lost its balance.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 1250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n It spent considerable time trying to recover by flapping its wings and trying to get that right foot back on the wire but for some reason it kept missing the wire.\u00a0 I took 33 images during the process, smiling the entire time. Eventually\u00a0the bird was successful\u00a0in finding the wire with its foot but even then it wobbled and struggled\u00a0so eventually it gave up and…<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 1250, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon<\/em> EF500mm f\/4L IS II USM +1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n took off for greener pastures.<\/p>\n In this shot I like the canopy of wings over the body, the head poking out from the wing enclosure (with a good look at the eye) and the extended legs from push-off. I didn’t rotate to level the wire in these images because the wire was actually sloped.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Young Burrowing Owls are pretty awkward when they’re still learning the ropes. In this case the “rope” was a wire.<\/p>\n![\"burrowing](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/burrowing-owl-3175-ron-dudley.jpg\")
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