{"id":90551,"date":"2020-10-20T05:34:46","date_gmt":"2020-10-20T11:34:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.featheredphotography.com\/blog\/?p=90551"},"modified":"2020-10-20T05:47:45","modified_gmt":"2020-10-20T11:47:45","slug":"burrowing-owls-making-a-food-delivery-to-their-younguns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/featheredphotography.com\/blog\/2020\/10\/20\/burrowing-owls-making-a-food-delivery-to-their-younguns\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrowing Owls Making A Food Delivery To Their Young’uns"},"content":{"rendered":"

Six hungry mouths to feed and only one vole.<\/p>\n

Due mostly to a persistent pattern of cloudy morning weather I’ve been posting more older photos than usual lately and today’s post continues with that tendency. The photo below was taken in June of 2017.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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1\/4000, 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

Here we see eight Burrowing Owls at their burrow, six somewhat darker juveniles and the two lighter adults in the foreground. The adult on the left with its back to us had just landed with a vole in its talons which the other adult immediately grasped in its beak.<\/p>\n

Immediately after this photo was taken the adult with the vole turned around and delivered it to the second juvenile from the right. Some of the youngsters showed more interest in the vole than others so I believe they were all generally well fed. When all of the juveniles are hungry the entire clan competes aggressively for delivered food.<\/p>\n

The owls were far away and the late morning light was harsh so the image quality of the photo suffered but I think it documents interesting behavior so I decided to share. Long ago I posted several other photos of this family but this one is new to Feathered Photography.<\/p>\n

Ron<\/p>\n

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Six hungry mouths to feed and only one vole.<\/p>\n

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