{"id":40837,"date":"2016-07-17T04:00:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-17T10:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=40837"},"modified":"2016-07-16T18:22:21","modified_gmt":"2016-07-17T00:22:21","slug":"montana-short-eared-owl-in-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2016\/07\/17\/montana-short-eared-owl-in-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Montana Short-eared Owl In Flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m finding a fair number of Short-eared Owls on this trip to Montana and Idaho\u00a0and like our birds in Utah they like to perch on and take off from fence posts. But this male actually took off from the ground.<\/p>\n

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\"short-eared1\/4000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + 1.4 tc, not baited, set up or called in<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

It had landed there yesterday morning apparently in pursuit of prey but it was unsuccessful. So I trained my lens on him as best I could in the deep grasses and waited for him to take off. I liked the actual lift-off image except for the fact that his eye was half closed so I chose to post the next image in the series. I wish there were more light in his eye but I do like the flight posture.<\/p>\n

I’m still having focusing issues with either my 500mm lens or my 7D Mark II (I suspect the latter)\u00a0but they’re intermittent and tracking down the actual source is problematic (to say the least) while I’m on the road and working with this laptop. So I’ve been shooting with different combinations of lenses and cameras and I’ll attempt to decipher the results when I get home.<\/p>\n

In the meantime I’ve been seeing a fair number of interesting birds and today I spent many hours exploring some of the most incredible and remote wilderness landscapes I’ve ever experienced.<\/p>\n

It doesn’t get much better than that.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I’m finding a fair number of Short-eared Owls on this trip to Montana and like our birds in Utah they like to perch on and take off from fence posts. But this male actually took off from the ground.<\/p>\n

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