{"id":27855,"date":"2015-08-28T05:26:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-28T11:26:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=27855"},"modified":"2025-05-08T13:08:11","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T18:08:11","slug":"great-horned-owl-chick-on-honeymoon-island-state-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2015\/08\/28\/great-horned-owl-chick-on-honeymoon-island-state-park\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Horned Owl Chick On Honeymoon Island State Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GreatGreat Horned Owl chick in nest – Nikon D200, handheld, f6.3, 1\/800, ISO 200, Nikkor 80-400mm VR at 400mm, natural light, not baited
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I spent about three months\u00a0 in 2008 watching a Great Horned Owl nest on Honeymoon Island State Park in Florida from hatching until this young owl fledged.<\/p>\n

The nest was high in an old, dead pine where the best light on the nest was in the evenings.<\/p>\n

Because the nest was so high there were many evenings that I came home without the high quality images I dreamed of but each time I was there I relished being able to watch this young owl grow from a small fuzzy chick to watching it branch, stretch its wings and finally to fly away from the nest.<\/p>\n

It isn’t always about the images, some times it is about just being there.<\/p>\n

I felt privileged to photograph this Great Horned Owl family.<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

I spent about three months in 2008 watching a Great Horned Owl nest on Honeymoon Island State Park in Florida from hatching until this young owl fledged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143572,"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":[27,25,209,468,2000],"tags":[2663,4203,4134,4141,4108,4067,4071,12740,4075,3967,4455,294,4018,8453,4427,373,4193],"class_list":["post-27855","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-florida","category-great-horned-owls","category-honeymoon-island-state-park","category-pinellas-county-florida","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-bubo-virginianus","tag-chick","tag-fledgling","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-key","tag-nest","tag-owl","tag-owlet","tag-owls","tag-sky","tag-snag","tag-tree","tag-winter","tag-young"],"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