This happens to be my first ever sighting of a Star-nosed Mole. As an added bonus, a Barred Owl had its bill wrapped around it as an offering to one of its owlets in a nearby nest. I did not see the owlets inside the nest, but was privileged to photograph one of them just off the forest floor once out. So cute!
I actually came upon this nest by surprise as I came around a corner, face-to-face with what you see here. The owl then flew a ways, so I followed it to where I thought it went. Found it, much higher in a tree, when along came another photographer who I proudly pointed out to that an owl was right here. "I know" he says with a grin, then adds if I had seen an owlet out of the nest. "What nest, and where?" was my first words...to which he replied, "right here" pointing to a cavity not twenty feet from where I was standing.
Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/250s., f/5.6, ISO 1600, natural light, handheld, full-frame, tamed a rather garish green cast, and removed an annoying stick from the tail to the bottom edge.







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