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WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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I was out on the field paths today and a big bird crossed my path. I quickly found its landing spot - a barred owl! I crept toward the tree and snapped a few photos. It was interested in me but unmoved to fly away which was good for me as I could take a bunch of pictures. It closed one eye from time to time as if trying to take a nap but ever watchful for prey or danger. I sat on the ground below the tree for a good long time to see what it would do but it seemed like it wasn't going anywhere for the duration. I think it was bored of me and just wanted a good mid-afternoon nap so I moved on. When it was preening I got a good look at those awesome talons which it used to hold onto a twig for balance.
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#542 |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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The first one is my favorite. I enjoyed all of them though. What beautiful feathers. Do you see Barred Owls on your property very often linrose?
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#543 |
Rock Star
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Piedmont area NJ USA
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Those are fabulous photos linrose!
The last one with the talons is beyond wonderful. The 2 with the sleepy eyes also have lots of character. The very funny thing about the last photo of yours is the similarity it bares to an altered drawing I recently completed for a BookArts collaborative called Rara Aves, meaning rare birds or unusual people. I changed newspaper photos of people to birds and there is a very spooky one about a graphic artist that reminds me of your owl. When I complete the series and scan it in I will post some of the images and you can judge for yourself. As a result of this series I have been looking at, researching and drawing birds for weeks now. I feel like I could wake up one day and be a bird after this. One of the photographers in an art group I was a member of pays a hefty fee a few times a year to photograph owls at the local Raptor Trust. It is one of the ways they make money to support the injured birds. |
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#544 |
WG Fundraising Coordinator
Join Date: Feb 2010
Location: Kentucky
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Oh my gosh will-o I'd love to see your drawings, what an inspired idea! Studying birds, drawing them and immersing yourself in them, I see how you could become a kindred spirit and so create these bird-people, how great! Just don't go all black swan on us now OK?
Those dark owl eyes just look so warm and expressive to me, it's easy to put a human face on that owl right? Are eyes the window to the soul, I don't know but it's easy to read into those eyes.
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WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Last fall, I had one adult come to the dogwood out front...I'd love to see a family of them. ![]() Over the years, I've added about a dozen more dogwoods, so hopefully I'll have plenty berries to attract them. With two acres, I could add another coupe dozen--and I hope to in the coming years. You are lucky to have a family of them.
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#546 | |
WG Hospitality & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Dec 2009
Location: Pennsylvania
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Cool to see the talon.
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"If suburbia were landscaped with meadows, prairies, thickets or forests, or combinations of these, then the water would sparkle, fish would be good to eat again, birds would sing and human spirits would soar." ~ Lorrie Otto ~ A Native Backyard Blog ~ |
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#547 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Here is an unknown for you. It is easier to id if its head wasn't behind its back!
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#548 |
Curious George & UAOKA recipient
Join Date: Jul 2010
Location: Chapel Hill, NC
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Not a single response? No wild guesses? I am disappointed in y'all.
It is a juvenile northern cardinal, preening. Here is the same bird, looking at the camera a minute later.
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There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture in the lonely shore, this is society where none intrudes, by the deep sea, and music in its roar. - Lord Byron Turttle's pollinator garden |
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#549 |
Alternate POM Judge
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: Maryland
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hhmmm I thought I responded. That was a very cool picture turttle.
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#550 |
WG Prize & Gift Coordinator
Join Date: Apr 2009
Location: Michigan
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So so sorry for disappointing you. If Ida been here that's what I certainly woulda benaguessin. An immature cardinal.
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