Burrowing Owl

[susanschermer]

This little guy flew into a nearby tree at my approach. It was one of a colony of 6 or 7 birds in Broward County.
Mark III, 70-200 f/2.8 with 2.0x for effective focal length 400mm.
ISO 1250, f5.6, 1/800.

[Marko Matesic]

I like eye-contact and light.....perch is nice and natural looking
I would like to see little more space under the bird
well done!

[allanrube]

Crop is fine with me - nice shot.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

I like the perch, light and BG. The plumage looks a bit odd. How did you sharpen the image?

[Raymond Barlow]

very nice! a fantastic background, great perch, and awesome light. Some detail is missing, but overall the image is sweet.

[Greg Basco]

Hi, Susan. Beautiful portrait of a really cool bird. Tweaking the sharpening somehow as Axel mentioned would probably be good to look into, but the light and composition make it work anyway I think.

Hope you're well and please say hi to Mickey for me.

Cheers,
Greg

[Manos Papadomanolakis]

I Iike the warm/soft light and eye contact!!!

[Doug Brown]

Always nice to see one of these guys on a perch Susan. The crop looks good to me, but just as others have mentioned the feathers look a little funny on my monitor. Thanks for posting!

[Stephen Stephen]

Susan, nice to see this bird with a good head turn towards you. As others have mentioned the plumage seems different.

[susanschermer]

It may be a little late, but I agreed with your comments. I'm not sure what i did, but here it is again.

[Axel Hildebrandt]

The bird looks too soft in the repost.