{"id":5374,"date":"2012-07-20T03:55:07","date_gmt":"2012-07-20T09:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=5374"},"modified":"2026-04-14T06:50:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T11:50:07","slug":"short-eared-owl-in-evening-light","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/07\/20\/short-eared-owl-in-evening-light\/","title":{"rendered":"Short-eared Owl in Evening Light"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #888888;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"lazyload aligncenter wp-image-148875 size-full\" title=\"Short-eared Owl in evening light, Glacier County, Montana\" src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/short-eared-owl-perched-mia-mcpherson-4127.jpg\" data-orig-src=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/short-eared-owl-perched-mia-mcpherson-4127.jpg\" alt=\"Short-eared Owl in evening light, Glacier County, Montana\" width=\"731\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"data:image\/svg+xml,%3Csvg%20xmlns%3D%27http%3A%2F%2Fwww.w3.org%2F2000%2Fsvg%27%20width%3D%27731%27%20height%3D%27800%27%20viewBox%3D%270%200%20731%20800%27%3E%3Crect%20width%3D%27731%27%20height%3D%27800%27%20fill-opacity%3D%220%22%2F%3E%3C%2Fsvg%3E\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/short-eared-owl-perched-mia-mcpherson-4127-200x219.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/short-eared-owl-perched-mia-mcpherson-4127-400x438.jpg 400w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/short-eared-owl-perched-mia-mcpherson-4127-600x657.jpg 600w, https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/short-eared-owl-perched-mia-mcpherson-4127.jpg 731w\" data-sizes=\"auto\" data-orig-sizes=\"(max-width: 731px) 100vw, 731px\" \/>Short-eared Owl in evening light &#8211; Nikon D200, f6.3, 1\/125, ISO 400, +0.7 EV, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n<p>There is a golden\u00a0tone with evening light that makes a subject glow. This male Short-eared Owl in evening light was photographed last year in Glacier County, Montana not too long before the sun set. It was a very cooperative subject.<\/p>\n<p>Life <em>is<\/em> good.<\/p>\n<p>Mia<\/p>\n<p>Click <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/short-eared-owl-images\/\">here<\/a><\/span> to see more of my Short-eared Owl photos plus facts and information about this species.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This male Short-eared Owl in evening light was photographed last year in Glacier County, Montana not too long before the sun set.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":148875,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[860,12,130],"tags":[4114,4021,2663,2192,4433,898,4062,294,2415,4104,3971,3993],"class_list":["post-5374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-glacier-county","category-montana","category-short-eared-owls","tag-asio-flammeus","tag-bird-photography","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-ear-tufts","tag-evening-light","tag-fence-post","tag-male","tag-owls","tag-owls-of-montana","tag-perched","tag-short-eared-owl","tag-sunset"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/short-eared-owl-perched-mia-mcpherson-4127.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p11Mom-1oG","jetpack_sharing_enabled":false,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":5936,"url":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/08\/15\/short-eared-owl-bathed-in-evening-light\/","url_meta":{"origin":5374,"position":0},"title":"Short-eared Owl bathed in evening light","author":"Mia McPherson","date":"August 15, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"This Short-eared Owl image was taken just a little over a year ago in Glacier County, Montana. 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