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« Reply #210 on: July 27, 2009, 12:40:24 PM » |
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Great owl pic, Spartycats! Do you know what kind it is? At first I thought barred owl, but they have dark eyes and your owl looks like it has yellow eyes. Only other owl it looks like in my western bird book is the great grey, but it looks too small for one of those.
I'm nearly certain it's a barred owl. His eyes were dark. The flash went off, and his eyes look mostly red to me (like a lot of my cat pictures)  |
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« Reply #211 on: July 27, 2009, 02:46:25 PM » |
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Very cool owl photo, Spartycats! I'm pretty sure it's a barred owl, too. What a privilege to see it! I always feel a sense of awe in the presence of birds of prey.
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« Reply #212 on: July 27, 2009, 03:31:49 PM » |
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Spartycats, great photo, and one that you don't get a chance to take every day! We hear owls making really strange sounds in the woods at night. One call starts up high and then trails, curling, down to a low range, sort of eeoo-aaaaaaahhhhhaha.  |
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« Reply #213 on: July 27, 2009, 05:29:11 PM » |
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Great pictures of the deer & owl ! I'll try to get 1 next time Daisy [our resident Pita doe] tries to attack the dogs through the fence. She actually got her mouth on Casey once in Marsha's backyard.
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« Reply #214 on: July 27, 2009, 05:41:36 PM » |
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Catwoods, we have a kind of owl here (called a screech owl) that makes a sound somewhat like you have described. Absolutely bone-chilling, especially when you hear it in the otherwise dead silence of 3am!
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« Reply #215 on: July 27, 2009, 05:48:39 PM » |
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I love your owl picture, Spartycats. Very cool.
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« Reply #216 on: July 27, 2009, 06:02:18 PM » |
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Spartycats, what an awesome picture of the owl. Absolutely magnificant!
Sandi, I can't get over how at home that deer appears to be in you backyard, WOW!
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« Reply #217 on: July 27, 2009, 06:14:59 PM » |
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Wow, good pic Spartycats! Isnt it hard to get pics of owls during the daylight hours coz they like night better and dont come out much during the day? He or she is BIG! Way cool!
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« Reply #218 on: July 27, 2009, 08:21:59 PM » |
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We were surrounded by severe weather here in southern WI this evening. Although the sky looked very threatening at times, none of the storms came where I live. (We didn't even get a drop of rain.)  The surrounding storms did, however, produce some amazing sunsets:   What no camera could capture, however, was the amazing quality of the light at the time the last two pictures were taken. The very air seemed to glow red-orange! It was like standing in flames, without the heat. The strange, rounded cotton-ball-like clouds in the last picture are called mammatocumulus. They are associated with severe thunderstorms, but are usually seen when the worst of the storms have passed. http://ww2010.atmos.uiuc.edu/(Gh)/guides/mtr/cld/cldtyp/oth/mm.rxmlETA: I've now replaced the second picture, changing to a version with a slightly longer exposure, which I decided I liked better for more emphasis on the quality of the light. (Although it's not as sharp because I was working with a comparatively low light level, and wasn't using a tripod. I usually take several versions of the same shot, especially when taking photos under unusual conditions, and see which one I like better.) |
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« Reply #219 on: July 27, 2009, 08:28:49 PM » |
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Wow...it looks like the sky is on fire! Great photos!
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« Reply #220 on: July 27, 2009, 09:57:47 PM » |
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Wow, catbird, that looks like the end of the world in that last pic! Very beautiful though. Love that sunset.
That does look like a barred owl if it's eyes are dark, Spartycats. They can be really mean if you get near their nests - keep an eye on that one if you walk by it again!
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« Reply #221 on: July 28, 2009, 06:02:13 AM » |
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Catbird, those pictures are amazing. You can almost feeling the intensity of the air through the picture and your description.s PLEASE send the rain our way!
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« Reply #222 on: July 28, 2009, 06:30:32 AM » |
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Yeah, seriously -- I thought you had posted pictures of a forest fire. That's really amazing! I've never seen light so red, but I guess our storms haven't been as severe up here. I have seen the mammatocumulus clouds and that lovely green light in the first picture. Scary.
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« Reply #223 on: July 28, 2009, 08:12:24 AM » |
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Those photos are amazing ! That sky must have been absolutely beautiful !
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« Reply #224 on: July 28, 2009, 04:33:03 PM » |
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Yikes catbird! That weather would scare me just about as much as our recent visit from a bear! We dont get weather like that here so thunderstorms and lightening, etc scare the heck out of me! |
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