{"id":7848,"date":"2013-03-14T03:55:10","date_gmt":"2013-03-14T09:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/?p=7848"},"modified":"2025-05-08T11:11:43","modified_gmt":"2025-05-08T16:11:43","slug":"great-horned-owlet-on-a-montana-farm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.onthewingphotography.com\/wings\/2013\/03\/14\/great-horned-owlet-on-a-montana-farm\/","title":{"rendered":"Great Horned Owlet on a Montana Farm"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"GreatGreat Horned Owlet – Nikon D200, f6.3, 1\/320, ISO 400, Nikkor 200-400mm VR with 1.4x TC at 400mm, natural light, not baited<\/span><\/p>\n

People are fascinated by owls, I know I am. It might be that owls have forward facing eyes like this Great Horned Owlet. Those eyes truly draw a person in.<\/p>\n

I photographed this young Great Horned Owlet in Glacier County<\/span><\/a>, Montana in 2009 as it rested on the foundation of an old granary.<\/p>\n

Its siblings were somewhere inside the dark granary interior. I was behind an old farm vehicle using it as a blind and as a support for my lens when I photographed the young owl.<\/p>\n

I normally don’t do clone work on my\u00a0 images but there was a bright pipe in the upper right hand corner that was distracting because it was bright and it didn’t look right with the rest of the old wood, rusty nails and spring green grass.<\/p>\n

I can’t help but smile when I look at this young owl.<\/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":"

People are fascinated by owls, I know I am. It might be that owls have forward facing eyes like this Great Horned Owlet. Those eyes truly draw a person in.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":143515,"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":[1782,4021,4203,4134,11120,4141,4205,4049,4108,4071,3969,519,3967,4455,294,4156],"class_list":["post-7848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-avian","category-glacier-county","category-great-horned-owls","category-montana","tag-barn","tag-bird-photography","tag-bubo-virginianus","tag-chick","tag-farmland","tag-fledgling","tag-glacier-county","tag-granary","tag-great-horned-owl","tag-juvenile","tag-montana","tag-nature","tag-owl","tag-owlet","tag-owls","tag-resting"],"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