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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on March 04, 2011, 12:55:10 PM

Title: Screech owl, eyes open
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on March 04, 2011, 12:55:10 PM

He kept on getting flushed into the knothole by nuthatches.

Caught him on his way back out to see the light of day.

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5060/5497543810_d159d5c49b_b.jpg)

Here's another angle:

(http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5055/5497332041_8d2abb562f_b.jpg)

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Post by: Whittam on March 04, 2011, 01:40:57 PM

Super shot!  Very well done!  Cheers Terry

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Post by: denis on March 04, 2011, 04:07:22 PM

nice catch richard.

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Post by: Luv2Bird on March 04, 2011, 05:35:42 PM

Very nice .. still can't get over how well camouflaged they are.

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Post by: JW Mills on March 04, 2011, 07:14:35 PM

Great shots!
I saw him today, sleeping.

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Post by: skyviewer on March 04, 2011, 08:56:20 PM

Dude i am so jealous.  i literally risk my life every day that i have a job in the country when i see some knarly old tree with a hole in it i am looking to see if i see a screech hiding in it instead of looking at the road.  But i never see one.  We need to have a east vs west friendly owl competition.  The Barred on Halls or the Lambton Screech.  I think i am 6 for 6 now for going to find the barred.   Everytime i go lately i find him.  You just look for the 5 cars on the side of the road or the ten photographers standing in the woods.

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Post by: mr.sharp-photo on March 04, 2011, 10:17:00 PM

don't be a hater, Dax :)

on my way home, i was looking at the knot holes along the road. very bad habit indeed.