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I was thinking about inventing one of these... looks like I've been beaten to it!

Wild Long Eared Owl wishing it had gone deeper into the woods for a snooze!

Cheers Danny! Their eyes are awesome totally 👍

I was very happy to see this guy sat on a branch just 20' off the path with a decent line of sight to get some shots.

Very nice, like the reflection!

Cool photos. I've never managed to see or shoot one of these

They are awesome to watch; thank you for the positive words. I'm very grateful to the guy, who trusted me with the location of one of it's hunting spots. It saved me a lot of time of fruitless ...

Thank you and thank you!

Think I'd be using all the IBIS I could find with one of those nearby. Great spot and great photos!

Thank you very much! I am really happy with it, I think its my best owl shot so far! Always trying to do better!

100% agree with all the comments, they are an awesome bird to see whatever the time of day. I have the general approach to the fill the frame, which I guess is no bad thing but only if the quality ...

Fierce looking bird!

Like it! Kingfishers are on my hit list!

Thanks Carlos 🙂🙂🙂

Thanks for the welcome and comments! There's room in some of the original shots to go more environmental, possibly #1 and certainly #2, I'll give that a go and see how they look! Thanks again!

Hi, new to this forum but enjoying seeing the fruits of you labour's. I was very happy to get these shots of this Barn Owl. Normally I'm battling very poor light & heavy cropping (nothing new there ...

Really pleased with this photo. I'm normally battling terrible light and lots of cropping with this Barn Owl. This morning it came a bit closer, the sun came up and gave me some back lighting, and ...

Thank you 😊 😊. I tend to manual focus mid way between flowers and let the bees come to me. It seems to work better than using auto focus, 20fps helps!!!

Sony A9 with 90mm Tamron manual focus macro lens

Thank you! I feel very lucky to have seen the owl in the wild at such close quarters!