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Some winters, I hardly see even one Pygmy Owl. This year, I cannot stop seeing them. We saw three different ones in a short time yesterday.<\/p>\n
It gave me the opportunity to try photographing one in flight.<\/p>\n
As daytime hunters, Pygmy Owls have sharp vision for locating prey. So they can obviously see humans wandering nearby. The Pygmy Owl certainly knew we were watching it, but as we were neither a suitable predator nor prey, it just seemed to ignore us. <\/p>\n
Of course, while it will always fly off to snare prey, it would often time its departure for when we looked away or had gone. It is as if it wanted to hide its next location from observers. So, photographing one flying was a problem.<\/p>\n
There were many pictures of owls sitting and hunting, but only one so-so shot of an owl\u00a0 flying off. Ah well.<\/p>\n
Here is one of the Pygmy Owls when it was hunting.
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It flew off rapidly, but for less that a second, it was still sort of in focus (and still watching).
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Some winters, I hardly see even one Pygmy Owl. This year, I cannot stop seeing them. We saw three different ones in a short time yesterday. It gave me the opportunity to try photographing one in flight. As daytime … Continue reading