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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: Jim Thomson on August 20, 2011, 02:04:49 PM

Title: Green Heron and first wild Great Horned Owl
Post by: Jim Thomson on August 20, 2011, 02:04:49 PM

Who's a pretty bird?
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6204/6062562008_0c6dc77bd9_b.jpg)

First time I've captured an owl in the wild.
(http://farm7.static.flickr.com/6078/6062562368_f84f61714c_b.jpg)

Both taken at Royal Botanical Gardens Burlington Ontario,

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Post by: mr.sharp-photo on August 20, 2011, 02:21:27 PM

very nice.
the green heron's still on my to-find list.

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Post by: denis on August 20, 2011, 02:49:55 PM

congrats on the GHO.
like the setting in #1

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Post by: BoboBird on August 20, 2011, 04:58:13 PM

Nice shots.

I am too waiting to photograph an owl (any owl will do). Have never photographed one but never seen one either :).

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Post by: Moira on August 20, 2011, 06:18:01 PM

Both great shots of great subjects.  It's hard to get a good shot of a GHO - huge peepers :)

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Post by: Jim Thomson on August 20, 2011, 07:13:41 PM

Just corrected the spelling on the Heron.

Thanks for the kind comments.

BoboBird, you might want to try Mountsberg Raptor Centre for Owl shots.  They have several and you can get upclose.

(http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3134/5731591842_b31f1cb564_b.jpg)

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Post by: ravynne40 on August 20, 2011, 07:56:17 PM

Great shots! wow that first owl looks almost unreal! love the eyes!

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Post by: BoboBird on August 21, 2011, 01:11:15 AM

Thanks Jim about Mountsberg, but am hoping for "in the wild".

But if all else fails Mountsberg it will be.

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Post by: MEGHAN on August 22, 2011, 12:22:02 AM

Love the Green Heron, great shot.
Lucky you with the GHO.
A friend of mine took me to the nest at the RBG back in the spring.
All you could see was just the top of the young ones heads inside the nest cavity.
They never did poke their heads up in the time we were there. I went back a few weeks later but they had already flegded and were probably back farther in the woods.
I'll try my luck again next year.

Congrats on a beautiful photo of one of the lesser know and seldom seen residents of the RBG!!!!

Meghan