{"id":6618,"date":"2012-11-20T03:55:31","date_gmt":"2012-11-20T10:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=6618"},"modified":"2025-04-25T06:05:08","modified_gmt":"2025-04-25T11:05:08","slug":"burrowing-owl-surprise","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2012\/11\/20\/burrowing-owl-surprise\/","title":{"rendered":"Burrowing Owl Surprise"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"BurrowingBurrowing Owl in low light – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/80, ISO 1000, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

There are Burrowing Owls on Antelope Island; I’ve photographed them hundreds of times, but yesterday I spotted one in a location I had never seen one before.<\/p>\n

It was close to the road which made photographing it from a vehicle easy the problem was heavy clouds made the light low and my shutter speed slow.<\/p>\n

Making sure my exposure was right using my histogram I fired off bursts which increased the chance that some of the images in the bursts would be sharp. And it worked.<\/p>\n

\"BurrowingBurrowing Owl portrait – Nikon D300, f6.3, 1\/60, ISO 1000, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

I liked the how the water behind the owl created a soft, pastel background, how the owl’s eyes seem to glow with the enlarged pupils and even though the setting is a little messy it all seems to meld together well.<\/p>\n

The light did get better before the owl took off but there was a stem in front of the owl’s face after a slight move, that stem was distracting, those images got deleted.<\/p>\n

It was a nice to find this Burrowing Owl surprise yesterday, I hope I’ll see it again.<\/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":"

There are Burrowing Owls on Antelope Island; I’ve photographed them hundreds of times, but yesterday I spotted one in a location I had never seen one before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143106,"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":[55,970,4214,4142,11978,4620,4067,4071,156,3967,294,4104,4046,4851,4516,4193],"class_list":["post-6618","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-athene-cunicularia","tag-autumn","tag-burrowing-owl","tag-close-up","tag-desert-island","tag-fall","tag-immature","tag-juvenile","tag-low-light-2","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-perched","tag-portrait","tag-surprise","tag-western-burrowing-owl","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