{"id":39623,"date":"2016-05-19T04:59:00","date_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=39623"},"modified":"2016-05-19T04:59:00","modified_gmt":"2016-05-19T10:59:00","slug":"burrowing-owl-at-takeoff-and-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/05\/19\/burrowing-owl-at-takeoff-and-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrowing Owl – At Takeoff And In Flight…"},"content":{"rendered":"

with an optical illusion thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

Yesterday morning in northern Utah I spent some quality time with\u00a0 two owl species. This very calm adult Burrowing Owl was perched on an old metal fence post as it warmed in the rising sun and though it didn’t give me much pose variety just watching it through my lens was a treat.<\/p>\n

When you’re photographing right at dawn light intensity changes very quickly which resulted in my somewhat excessive shutter speed and ISO setting for this image<\/em>.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM , not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

After getting quite a few images of the perched owl\u00a0I removed my teleconverter so I’d be less likely to clip body parts if the bird chose to take off. Eventually it obliged me.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM , not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

With the wings in this position I didn’t have enough depth of field to get them\u00a0crisp but the rest of the bird is sharp.<\/p>\n

While I was processing this\u00a0image I noticed something that confused my eye at first. How could one of the flight feathers of the\u00a0horizontally extended left wing possibly be in front of the chin of the owl? At first glance (and the second and the third…) that’s exactly what it looked like to me. But the next image in the series revealed what was really going on.<\/p>\n

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\"burrowing<\/p>\n

1\/4000, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,<\/em> Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM , not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/p>\n

The color, shape and position of the left wing primaries matched those of the brown marking on the bird’s chin and that combination fooled my eye. With the wings in the up position reality became more clear.<\/p>\n

I was pleasantly surprised to get two sharp shots of this bird after it left the perch. Burrowing Owls are so incredibly quick at takeoff that I’m usually lucky to get even one. In fact, this time I\u00a0almost got three of them but I barely clipped some body parts in the third image of the burst.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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with an optical illusion thrown in for good measure.<\/p>\n

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