{"id":7658,"date":"2013-02-28T05:19:54","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T12:19:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7658"},"modified":"2025-05-08T10:42:12","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T15:42:12","slug":"a-pair-of-great-horned-owls-in-montana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/02\/28\/a-pair-of-great-horned-owls-in-montana\/","title":{"rendered":"Pair of Great Horned Owls in Montana"},"content":{"rendered":"

This mated pair of Great Horned Owls were resting in the opening of an old granary in Glacier County<\/span><\/a>, Montana when I photographed them in June of 2009.<\/p>\n

\"GreatGreat Horned Owls in a granary – Nikon D200, tripod mounted, f6.3, 1\/400, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited or called in<\/span><\/p>\n

The smaller male is on the left and the larger female is on the right. Their fledglings were most likely inside the granary.<\/p>\n

Though I normally prefer birds in natural settings there is some thing about owls and old, weathered wood that I find visually appealing despite the “hand of humans” in this frame. Of course, the beautiful light helped out too!<\/p>\n

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

Mia<\/p>\n

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

This mated pair of Great Horned Owls were resting in the opening of an old granary in Glacier County, Montana when I photographed them in June of 2009.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143512,"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":[27,860,209,12],"tags":[4004,4051,1782,2663,4203,4205,4049,4108,1093,2138,4206,3967,294,2415,2139,165],"class_list":["post-7658","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-glacier-county","category-great-horned-owls","category-montana","tag-adult","tag-adults","tag-barn","tag-birds-of-prey","tag-bubo-virginianus","tag-glacier-county","tag-granary","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-hand-of-man","tag-mates","tag-old-wood","tag-owl","tag-owls","tag-owls-of-montana","tag-pair","tag-spring"],"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