{"id":71071,"date":"2019-04-20T06:13:53","date_gmt":"2019-04-20T12:13:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=71071"},"modified":"2019-04-20T08:23:15","modified_gmt":"2019-04-20T14:23:15","slug":"burrowing-owl-amongst-the-wildflowers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2019\/04\/20\/burrowing-owl-amongst-the-wildflowers\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrowing Owl Amongst The Wildflowers"},"content":{"rendered":"

Plus a rogue airplane flying much too low over Antelope Island yesterday morning.<\/p>\n

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1\/5000, f\/6.3, ISO 500, Canon 7D Mark II,\u00a0Canon EF 500mm f\/4L IS II USM, not baited, set up or called in<\/em><\/p>\n

It’s been much too long since I’ve been able to get any Burrowing Owl photos I like but yesterday morning that streak came to an end when this bird popped up out of it “his” burrow for a few minutes. For my tastes many Burrowing Owl photos leave something to be desired because they tend to stay near their burrow entrance and all that bare earth is often unattractive. But this owl had a dirt mound in front of his burrow and he stood almost on top of it which gave me the greenery of Redstem Filaree in the background, including their lovely flowers which I adore having back there.<\/p>\n

At one point the quiet and peaceful morning was rudely disturbed by an extremely low-flying plane that passed directly over our heads.<\/p>\n

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I estimated that the plane was significantly less than 100′ over the top of the hill directly behind the owl. This is one of the first shots I got of it when it was still further away but even then I could barely keep the entire plane in the frame with my teleconverter removed (this shot is almost full frame). The roar of the plane was deafening and the owl didn’t like it one bit.<\/p>\n

Nor did I, especially when it got much closer and passed directly overhead.<\/p>\n

I’m pretty clueless when it comes to aircraft and this one looks just a little unusual to me. Do any of my readers know what type it is?<\/p>\n

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A huge crop of the same photo (5% of the original image) makes it obvious that the pilot saw my pickup but he made no effort to turn away as he passed much too close overhead. In a state park! The reason he didn’t turn away may (or may not) have been to prevent me from reading his N-numbers, especially when he saw my big lens pointed his way. Unless he was blind he couldn’t have missed my lens and I doubt there are many blind pilots out there.<\/p>\n

I’ve reported aircraft flying too low over the island to the FAA twice before but I may not be reporting this one for the following reasons:<\/p>\n