Suprise birding find yesterday.
We found several short eared owls flying and hunting over some open fields near Lake Champlain.
We were headed to Lake Champlain to try some ice fishing but turned around and went back to the house for cameras.
The owls were still there and still hunting an hour later when we returned.
I had never seen a short eared owl. We were considering a search for a snowy owl as they are sometimes seen along Lake Champlain but didn't due to no reported sightings recently.
We even saw a local Audubon Society staffer that stopped to check out the short eared owl and they confirmed no local sightings of the snowy owl this year 🙁
wow it leaves us speechless
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Thanks. It was cool to capture these shots.
I imagine also very difficult
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Wow… so soooo beautiful.
Lucky you to catch it 🥰
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Thanks. It was a cool encounter.
You are welcome, they are the best.
Have a nice Wednesday 😊
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Just love the wide angle shot! Keep it up!
Thanks. I liked that framing
Wowwwww!! I'm glad you did go back, amazing shots! It's so hard so see those species, let alone be able to catch them perching; even more, with a great background! !BBH
Thanks. I loved the shots with the hazy purple mountains behind 🙂
You should, they are stunning! I would frame stuff like this! :)
Very cool view of the owl, you managed to take a very beautiful and focused photo of the owl, it's really amazing ❤️
Thanks the owl let us get amazingly close
It's amazing, I really like it❤️
Uff una belleza. Además que destreza para hacer esa captura tan bella.
Gracias 🙏 🙏
Beautiful shots
Thanks. Luck is good 👍 better than skill haha
😉 yeahhhhhh 😉
We have Barn Owls living near us. I can see them hunting at dawn and dusk as i drive my car to our house but i can never manage to get photos of them. Congrats on such lovely photos !
Thanks. Barn Owls are hard to capture 👍
Great shots of this owl...
My bird photos are always out of focus, or I just have the branch without the bird 😅
Thanks. This owl was quite patient with getting its picture taken haha we saw it in the distance, drove up closer, took some pictures from car, got out, took some pictures, crossed road, took some pictures, walked through deep snow in ditch to the fence, took even more pictures. The owl never flew away.
Surely an owl who trained as a model in his youth 😀
Nice,
I was lucky enough to see one in the wild but never since.
Thanks this is the first time I have seen this owl
Dang I missed this in my feed when I was sick. You have much better luck with owls than me, though the last photo looks like its about to take off.
That owl was amazing laid back. My wife jumped out of the car and walked closer and closer. Finally trudging through snow over her knees in the ditch to get to the edge of the field. It was one of the rare encounters where we actually said yeah I got that picture and left with the owl still sitting there. We almost always end up shooting and shooting pics until the bird finally flies away.
Maybe the owl was entertained watching the humans crawl through the snow lol. Maybe it really loves that dead tree for hunting.