Ah hello! I was unwilling to cause undue disturbance to this low-perching beast, who clearly wanted to sleep. His eye was briefly opened by a gang of joggers in their jogging costumes. This was one of the very few openings provided by the surrounding trees, and of course I am always delighted to find ANY bird in what I fancifully call a sweetpocket.
This picture was taken with the Canon 7D and 100-400 at 400mm. iso640, 1/1600, f7.1
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Nice that you caught this guy with his eyes open and it's ears up. Like you said it is a sweet pocket that you found it sitting in just wish the white was not in the background. It's a pretty busy foreground also but good job getting it in the open at all.
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I too would have preferred an all-blue background. The blue is snow in heavy shadow and the white is blown-out snow. I am willing to reveal this secret only because it's not terribly exciting anyhow! When presented with an owl in a sweetpocket, I must take what I'm given, which doesn't always make for great photography, that's for sure, but there's enough here to interest me.
Long-Eared Owl in A Strange Sweetpocket
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