tags: birds, Long-earned Owl, Asio otus, ornithology, Image of the Day
Okay, I have to brag a little bit. I have been invited to Manhattan, Kansas, to go birding with Dave Rintoul and his ornithology students for one week at the end of March. I am almost beside myself with excitement right now as I look through Dave's many bird images -- which remind me of my own years of springtime birding on the west coast of this country. How I miss those days, and those birds!
This is the fourth image in this series of Dave's beautiful pictures. The strange long-eared owls are one of my most favorite owl species, along with half a dozen other owls!
Long-eared Owl fledglings, Asio otus (Antelope Island).
Image: Dave Rintoul, 2005.
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Well, I'm envious, and I'm just your average bird watcher. I once had the privilege of seeing four Great Horned Owls at once, sitting in a pine on a wide stream bank. They weren't more than four metres from the little wooden bridge I was crossing (Amherst Shore Provincial park, Nova Scotia), and seemed completely unperturbed by me or my dog.
Hope you see lots of birds!