Photography
Related: About this forumThere is a snowy owl hanging out in Orange County, Ca.
Here are some of my photos,(cross posted in the Lounge).
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NJCher
(36,091 posts)I love the interplay of texture and patternhis coat, he roof.
The penultimate one especially.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)The light was pretty dingy today, but it did happen to improve for that shot.
Skittles
(153,914 posts)great pics!
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)Irish_Dem
(50,342 posts)Thanks for posting.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)calimary
(81,988 posts)What gorgeous photos! You really caught a portrait in grandeur in that collection, Grumpy Old Guy.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)Callalily
(14,910 posts)have such a magnificant bird near you.
Some folklore: https://www.atshq.org/snowy-owl-symbolism/
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)I never thought I'd be photographing a snowy owl this week.
usonian
(10,350 posts)Awesome. Congrats.
And you used up your 2022 luck, just in time.
2023 will be even better.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)Gato Moteado
(9,879 posts)he's had it with the cold.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)She is a national phenomenon right now.
Mousetoescamper
(3,880 posts)irruption year when there's a shortage of lemmings, their main food source in the Arctic, and young breeding owls head south in search of food. There was a large irruption about 10 years ago and there were hundreds of snowy sightings in Pennsylvania. There was a sighting last winter a few miles from my home, but the owl had moved on before I could grab my camera and drive to the site.
I've never sighted one in the wild, much less have gotten a photo, and here the guy from Los Angeles gets shots of a snowy practically in his backyard! (sarcasm) Congratulations, Grumpy, you got some great shots of a species not seen in your neck of the woods in over 100 years!
I hope the spectators are being respectful of the owl and the neighborhood.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)And so far the neighbors seem happy with all the attention.
I never thought I would be dropping everything to be photographing a snowy owl this week
Cracklin Charlie
(12,904 posts)I have at least three owl species in the back yard. They get up in the trees and screech at each other in the middle of the night.
Scares the peewaddlins out of me.
Grumpy Old Guy
(3,260 posts)She coughed it up a few minutes before I captured these photos