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1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n Soon after she landed on the post she appeared to be scanning for prey indiscriminately, often looking in different directions but always on a mostly horizontal plane.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/p>\n But suddenly her focus was below and slightly in front of her.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/2500, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/p>\n She seemed to be tracking something that was hidden in the tall grasses and moving from her left to right.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n 1\/3200, f\/7.1, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II, Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM + EF 1.4 III Extender, not baited, set up or called in<\/p>\n Then whatever it was must have backtracked because her eyes became glued to the grasses directly below her again. I like this pose, partly because I don’t think I have another owl shot quite like it.<\/p>\n While watching her I always felt like I knew almost exactly where the presumed vole was and which direction it was going just by following the direction of her intense gaze. Of course she was probably using her powerful hearing abilities more than her eyesight but either way she had to “focus”.<\/p>\n I spent quite a while with her while she was hunting from this post but in the end she lost interest and eventually flew off.<\/p>\n Ron<\/p>\n On an unrelated note, yesterday Utah DWR and Utah State Parks announced that the sizeable herd of Bighorn Sheep on Antelope Island has become infected by a respiratory disease and the animals that remain must be eradicated. As you can imagine, this is truly devastating news. More details can be found here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Plus some devastating news about the Bighorn Sheep herd on Antelope Island.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/short-eared-owl-3970-ron-dudley.jpg\" "\\"short-eared-owl-3970-ron-dudley\\"")
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