{"id":62233,"date":"2019-12-27T05:38:30","date_gmt":"2019-12-27T12:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=62233"},"modified":"2024-02-27T04:25:22","modified_gmt":"2024-02-27T11:25:22","slug":"dreaming-of-a-great-horned-owl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2019\/12\/27\/dreaming-of-a-great-horned-owl\/","title":{"rendered":"Dreaming Of A Great Horned Owl"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"RoostingRoosting Great Horned Owl – Nikon D500, f7.1, 1\/500, ISO 640, Nikkor 500mm VR, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I think about birds a lot. I think about birds in the morning, at noon, before the sun goes down and I even dream about them at night.<\/p>\n

Last night I had a dream about a Great Horned Owl that I found while driving on the back roads of some imaginary place my subconscious mind made up where there were tall, evergreen trees next to a dirt road. In my dream I was driving slowly because even in a sound sleep I know that is the best<\/em> way to spot birds in heavily wooded areas. Move too fast in the woods and you will miss birds.<\/p>\n

In my dream I heard the call of an alarmed raven ahead of me so I started looking more carefully for the raven and then I saw the outline of a bird close to the trunk of a tree that I knew right away wasn’t a raven but that of a roosting Great Horned Owl. As I drove closer to the tree trunk the owl slowly opened its bright yellow eyes, turned its head towards me and hooted a few times.<\/p>\n

The sound of the owl calling seemed so realistic that I woke from my dream, got up, went to my living room window and looked outside just to make sure that I wasn’t really hearing a Great Horned Owl. I didn’t find an owl outside my window but I did enjoy finding one in my dream.<\/p>\n

I’ve been cooped up inside for far too long because of the weather, it may be time to pack a lunch and go for a long country drive, in a forest, to look for birds.<\/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":"

Anyone who knows me at all knows that I think about birds a lot. I think about birds in the morning, at noon, before the sun goes down and I even dream about them at night.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":62235,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_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":[27,1148,209,26],"tags":[4004,4203,8180,8181,4108,3967,294,4353,2283],"class_list":["post-62233","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-box-elder-county-utah","category-great-horned-owls","category-utah","tag-adult","tag-bubo-virginianus","tag-dreaming","tag-dreams","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-owls-of-utah","tag-roosting"],"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