{"id":46892,"date":"2017-03-23T05:39:59","date_gmt":"2017-03-23T11:39:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=46892"},"modified":"2017-03-23T06:11:50","modified_gmt":"2017-03-23T12:11:50","slug":"my-first-decent-burrowing-owl-photos-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2017\/03\/23\/my-first-decent-burrowing-owl-photos-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"My First Decent Burrowing Owl Photos This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"

I seldom photograph Burrowing Owls on Antelope Island anymore. Most of their burrows are too far from the roads, the light angles are bad for morning photography and I will not approach their burrows on foot. Mostly I just observe them from a distance and enjoy the fact that they’re there.<\/p>\n

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1\/4000, f\/5.6, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

So it was a surprise to find this one fairly\u00a0close to the road and in good light yesterday morning (it even chose a spot where I could include a few pretty flowers in the setting).<\/p>\n

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1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 400, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

And I was happy to see it wasn’t banded.<\/p>\n

Our weather pattern has been so gloomy and dismal for so long that I’ve done very little shooting but yesterday when a brief “sucker hole” appeared in the clouds I headed for the island (a 50 minute drive for me) to see if I’d get lucky with light. I was there for 2 1\/2 hours and only had light for about\u00a0thirty minutes\u00a0but thankfully I photographed this owl in that brief window. It never <\/em>happens that way!<\/p>\n

Sadly I don’t think this owl will be in the burrow it has recently chosen for long. That burrow is waaaay<\/em> too close to the road and as soon as it is “discovered” by the public the bird will be pressured too much and I’m sure it’ll be abandoned. That’s exactly what happened a few years ago when other Burrowing Owls occupied this burrow.<\/p>\n

As a\u00a0park employee once told me,\u00a0this is what happens when these owls are “loved to death”.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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I seldom photograph Burrowing Owls on Antelope Island anymore so it was fun to find this cooperative bird yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

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