{"id":7260,"date":"2012-08-25T07:49:18","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T13:49:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2012-09-01T18:56:57","modified_gmt":"2012-09-02T00:56:57","slug":"short-eared-owl-displaying-ear-tufts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2012\/08\/25\/short-eared-owl-displaying-ear-tufts\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared Owl Displaying Ear Tufts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Short-eared Owls are always a primary photographic\u00a0quarry for me whenever I visit the Centennial Valley in sw Montana but on this last trip I only found one.\u00a0 However, that lone bird made up for it by showing me something fairly unusual.<\/p>\n

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\u00a0These owls have short ear tufts (“ears”) but they are only rarely seen because they are usually laying down on the top of the head.\u00a0 Here they can be seen, but just barely.<\/p>\n

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However, when the bird turned to face me for just a moment the tufts became visible.\u00a0 \u00a0Typically they are only erected in a defensive pose and I don’t know if this owl deliberately displayed them to me because it thought I was too close or if a breeze from the back lifted them involuntarily.\u00a0 I suspect it was the latter because in the shots right after this one other feathers on the head look to be blown erect by the breeze.<\/p>\n

Either way I was glad to see the tufts.\u00a0 I have hundreds of images of this species and very few of them show the “ears”.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Short-eared Owls are always a primary photographic\u00a0quarry for me whenever I visit the Centennial Valley in sw Montana but on this last trip I only found one.\u00a0 However, that lone bird made up for it by showing me something fairly unusual.     \u00a01\/1600, f\/5.6, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc \u00a0These owls have short ear tufts (“ears”) but they are only rarely seen because they are usually laying down on the top of the head.\u00a0 Here they can be seen, but just barely.     \u00a0\u00a01\/2000, f\/5.6, ISO 500, 500 f\/4, 1.4 tc However, when the bird turned to face me for just a moment the tufts became visible.\u00a0 \u00a0Typically they are only erected in a defensive pose and I don’t know if this owl deliberately displayed them to me because it thought I was too close or if a breeze from the back lifted them involuntarily.\u00a0 I suspect it was the latter because in the shots right after this one other feathers on the head look to be blown erect by the breeze. Either way I was glad to see the tufts.\u00a0 I have hundreds of images of this species and very few of them show the “ears”. Ron<\/p>\n

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