{"id":5333,"date":"2012-07-14T04:59:03","date_gmt":"2012-07-14T10:59:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=5333"},"modified":"2025-06-16T14:33:45","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T19:33:45","slug":"adult-burrowing-owl-lift-off","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/07\/14\/adult-burrowing-owl-lift-off\/","title":{"rendered":"Adult Burrowing Owl Lift Off"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been having fun photographing Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia<\/em>) lately and it is a joy to have them in my viewfinder again.<\/p>\n

\"AdultAdult Burrowing Owl lifting off – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/640, ISO 500, +0.3 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 350mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

The light I had when I photographed this adult Burrowing Owl lifting off from the sagebrush wasn’t ideal, I would have liked more shutter speed to freeze the motion. The brighter area at the top of the frame is a strip of sand on the shoreline of the Great Salt Lake.<\/p>\n

What happened after this frame was very interesting\u00a0 because the owl came closer to me and snatched a dragonfly from the air then flew off with it to the ground near another bush. I have never seen a Burrowing Owl do that before.<\/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":"

I’ve been having fun photographing Burrowing Owls (Athene cunicularia) lately and it is a joy to have them in my viewfinder again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148895,"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":[511,27,52,1022,26],"tags":[4004,55,4021,4083,4214,4282,294,4057],"class_list":["post-5333","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-antelope-island-state-park","category-avian","category-burrowing-owls","category-davis-county-utah","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-athene-cunicularia","tag-bird-photography","tag-birding","tag-burrowing-owl","tag-lift-off","tag-owls","tag-sagebrush"],"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