Northern Hawk Owl + Top 10 of 2019

[Daniel Cadieux]

Here's the last bird I photographed in 2019, a Northern Hawk Owl. This is not the infamous Schomberg owl that has been photographed extensively in southern Ontario (for those of you that know about this well-documented bird), but rather this is another individual, much closer to home. Here it had just dove into thick branched to catch a Meadow Vole and had flown back up to an eye-level branch. How convenient.

Did this image make it onto my "Top 10 of 2019"? You'll have to head over to my blog to find out if and where it placed!:

http://www.dancadphotography.com/top-10-of-2019/

Canon 7DII + 500mm f/4 II + 1.4TC III, manual exposure, evaluative metering, 1/1600s., f/5.6, ISO 400, natural light, handheld, FF, a couple of small twigs removed around the edges.