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Eduardo del Solar

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I was able to get to the GHO nest at dawn and was able to see the changing of the guards. The mama GHO was persecuted by a mob of crows and the papa, see below, stayed behind, but not at the nest. Brown furry item at the nest is a rabbit.

owlets and left over rabbit



owlet yawning



papa GHO



Eduardo
 
Shawn,

I was not on a tree, too old to climb 90 feet of tree. Here is a picture of the 55 foot monopod rig we used. The monopod has no IS, but will stabilize in about one minute after it reaches full extension. :-)

I am the old man with the lens



We are still quite far away from the nest, see angle of view



Monopod at rest, the nest is up on the pine tree about 90 feet high



Eduardo
 
What a cool idea if you can get your hands on one of those mono.....er, hydraulic pods. I've always wondered what the owls would do if someone got that high up. The parents are known to defend the nest with a lot of vigor, attacking constantly until the intruder is either dead or driven off. I suppose you can be high up but just not too close to the nest.

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Justme said:
What a cool idea if you can get your hands on one of those
mono.....er, hydraulic pods. I've always wondered what the owls
would do if someone got that high up. The parents are known to
defend the nest with a lot of vigor, attacking constantly until the
intruder is either dead or driven off.
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You are correct, I would not like to have those talons close to my neck! In this case the arborist is around prunning trees year round and I believe that these guys perceive folks inside the bucket of pod as non-meat or not threatening.

You should see the mess of crows that constantly dive bomb the nest everyday. In less than one minute of a GHO parent leaving the nest a gang of 10-20 crows are ready to terrorize it. Man, no wonder GHOs like to snack on crow.

Eduardo

I suppose you can be high
Justme said:
up but just not too close to the nest.

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I know you mean well but please do not embed my images into the
forum. Thanks for respecting that.
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/northern_gannet_and_right_whale
http://www.pbase.com/golfpic/puffins

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what does GH stand for?

is it this owl? the milky look is due to a fence



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Beauty is in the eye of the photographer

 
Eduardo, nice shots! I know you're close to me - I'm a 1/2 hour South of Boston. If you don't mind telling me, where can I find this location? I'd love to get some shots of the GHO. You can email the spot, if you like...

Thanks,
Joe
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jvince96 said:
Eduardo, nice shots! I know you're close to me - I'm a 1/2 hour
South of Boston. If you don't mind telling me, where can I find
this location? I'd love to get some shots of the GHO. You can email
the spot, if you like...

Thanks,
Joe
[email protected]
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...he wote me in another thread:

"This was taken at the Forrest Hills cemetery in Jamaica Plain, not far from the Arboretum"
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codfish

 
Victor Engel said:
Eduardo del Solar said:
You should see the mess of crows that constantly dive bomb the nest
everyday. In less than one minute of a GHO parent leaving the nest
a gang of 10-20 crows are ready to terrorize it. Man, no wonder
GHOs like to snack on crow.
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By the way, a group of crows is called a murder.
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I've heard that term used by trained birders to describe the phenomena. I would not make a claim that I am a trained birder or a birder just because I hang with some of them. Their vocabulary is still strange to me!

Thank you for the correction, Victor.
Victor Engel said:
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