I\u2019ve been posting photos daily to Feathered Photography for about ten years now. Many of them haven\u2019t been seen since the first day they were published and I think some of them deserve better than that. So it\u2019s my intention, once or twice each month, to post a few images from the distant past. They won\u2019t all necessarily be my \u2018best\u2019 photos \u2013 some will have behavioral significance and others will be images I have a sentimental attachment to for a variety of reasons. Long time followers of Feathered Photography will have seen some of them before but I think most of us enjoy the occasional \u2018golden oldie\u2019.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n <\/p>\n
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A male Short-eared Owl in Montana delivering a vole to his family at the nest. My time spent with this family of owls over many days was one of the most exciting and rewarding experiences I’ve had as a bird photographer.<\/p>\n
The background is sagebrush flats below and the Centennial Mountains in shade in the top half of the frame.<\/p>\n
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An intensely curious Long-tailed Weasel in its white winter coat. Technically it isn’t a great photo but this was the first time I’d photographed an elusive white weasel, what some folks call an ermine, so it was the beginning of my long-term attempt to photograph more of them – a quest that remains largely unfulfilled.<\/p>\n
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An adult Bald Eagle eating a fish in flight.<\/p>\n
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I posted four photos of the eagle with the fish back in February of 2011 and I’m including three of them today. Here we see a fish scale below the eagle’s tail as it was falling to the ice below.<\/p>\n
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This is the reason the eagle was attempting to eat the fish in flight rather than on the ice. There were many gulls on the ice that would pester any eagle attempting to eat a fish down there so this one tried a different strategy in an attempt to avoid the aggravating gulls. It didn’t work. I actually saw a gull bite the tail of one of the eagles in flight.<\/p>\n
When I posted this last photo ten years ago I’d cropped the gull out of the image. This version that includes the gull is one I posted later. I have quite a few other photos in the series but they weren’t posted in the proper time frame so I’m not including any of them here.<\/p>\n
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Each of the following five photos was posted to Feathered Photography back in February and March, 2011.<\/p>\n
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