{"id":15267,"date":"2014-06-24T04:46:42","date_gmt":"2014-06-24T10:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=15267"},"modified":"2025-10-13T09:03:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-13T14:03:59","slug":"adult-burrowing-owl-and-the-great-salt-lake","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2014\/06\/24\/adult-burrowing-owl-and-the-great-salt-lake\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Burrowing Owl and the Great Salt Lake"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"AdultAdult Burrowing Owl and the Great Salt Lake<\/span><\/p>\n

Burrowing Owls are one of my favorite subjects to photograph and to get one perched with the Great Salt Lake in the background was wonderful.<\/p>\n

This image was taken in August of 2010 as the adult watched over its young that were nearby.\u00a0 The adult Burrowing Owl even looks a little frazzled to me. Raising young seems to do that in more than one species of birds.<\/p>\n

The past few years it has been more difficult to get quality images of the Burrowing Owls<\/span><\/a> on Antelope Island State Park. That is due in part because the burrows seems further away from the road.<\/p>\n

Many of the owls are now banded or have telemetry units protruding from their backs and they seem far more skittish than they used to be.<\/p>\n

Life is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n

Mia<\/p>\n

Click here<\/span><\/a> to see more of my Burrowing Owl photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Burrowing Owls are one of my favorite subjects to photograph and to get one perched with the Great Salt Lake in the background was wonderful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":127095,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[511,27,52,26],"tags":[4004,55,4021,4471,4083,4214,3981,11978,4005,4035,3967,294,4353,2817,4057,2315,4032],"class_list":["post-15267","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-burrowing-owls","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-athene-cunicularia","tag-bird-photography","tag-bird-watching","tag-birding","tag-burrowing-owl","tag-davis-county","tag-desert-island","tag-great-salt-lake","tag-nature-photography","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-owls-of-utah","tag-sage","tag-sagebrush","tag-summer-3","tag-wildlife-photography"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t