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<\/p>\nWe had some more fun with the family of Burrowing Owls this morning.\u00a0 There are\u00a0two adults and at least seven chicks.\u00a0 Some of the youngsters have been banded, which may be good for the owls but it isn’t particularly good\u00a0for photography so I was\u00a0happy to see that this one\u00a0wasn’t wearing any jewelry.<\/p>\n
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\u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4<\/em><\/p>\n One of the adult birds spent much of the morning perched on\u00a0sagebrush to the left of this one and occasionally one of the youngsters would come in and land close by.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised by the eye contact in this image.\u00a0 Usually they’re looking down at this point in\u00a0the landing process\u00a0but I think a slight headwind gave this bird time enough to glance up at my pickup\u00a0just to make sure we continued to be no threat.\u00a0 In the\u00a0very next frame the owl was beginning to look down at\u00a0its\u00a0landing spot on the sage.<\/p>\n I love the very early morning light on these owls but especially on\u00a0the juveniles.\u00a0 The tradeoff is that\u00a0ISO 640 is pushing it for my Canon 7D but I always like to have good shutter speed when an opportunity like this suddenly appears.\u00a0 I had taken off my tc but still barely fit the owl in the frame.\u00a0 The upper background is a distant sandbar and sloping shoreline of the Great Salt Lake.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u00a01\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4<\/em><\/p>\n I was able to get five sharp shots as this owl was coming in.\u00a0 My favorite of the sequence is the first image in this post but I thought I’d include the last one of the series to show the bird just before contact with the sage.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0After that I lost focus on the owl and got a nice sharp shot of the lake shoreline… \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We had some more fun with the family of Burrowing Owls this morning.\u00a0 There are\u00a0two adults and at least seven chicks.\u00a0 Some of the youngsters have been banded, which may be good for the owls but it isn’t particularly good\u00a0for photography so I was\u00a0happy to see that this one\u00a0wasn’t wearing any jewelry. \u00a01\/2000, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4 One of the adult birds spent much of the morning perched on\u00a0sagebrush to the left of this one and occasionally one of the youngsters would come in and land close by.\u00a0 I was pleasantly surprised by the eye contact in this image.\u00a0 Usually they’re looking down at this point in\u00a0the landing process\u00a0but I think a slight headwind gave this bird time enough to glance up at my pickup\u00a0just to make sure we continued to be no threat.\u00a0 In the\u00a0very next frame the owl was beginning to look down at\u00a0its\u00a0landing spot on the sage. I love the very early morning light on these owls but especially on\u00a0the juveniles.\u00a0 The tradeoff is that\u00a0ISO 640 is pushing it for my Canon 7D but I always like to have good shutter speed when an opportunity like this suddenly appears.\u00a0 I had taken off my tc but still barely fit the owl in the frame.\u00a0 The upper background is a distant sandbar and sloping shoreline of the Great Salt Lake. \u00a01\/1600, f\/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f\/4 I was able to get five sharp shots as this owl was coming in.\u00a0 My favorite of the sequence is the first image…<\/p>\n![\"burrowing](\"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/burrowing-owl-6452-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"burrowing")
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