I photographed one as a teenager with my dad's old Minolta film camera way back when, and have not had a good chance at a Barred Owl since then. I knew there was a Barred Owl in this particular place but I had struck out on 3-4 previous visits. On this morning I came across a flock of about 15 cardinals in a shrub, which I found unusual in their numbers and "tameness", so I photographed them for about 10-15 minutes before realizing the owl was about 30 behind those cardinals (which I then realized were behaving in this way due to the presence of the owl). This is the very perch it was sitting on...pretty cool!
Canon 7D + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/5.6, ISO 800, natural light, darkened a couple of brighter spots in the BG.







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Well done

