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I had 5 great years shooting a group of Burrowing owls just down the street from my house. Every year the babies would emerge from their burrows to find me sitting in my truck patiently waiting their arrival. They quickly had no fear of me as their parents had seen me for years so they didn't instill the fear of me into their babies.
It was a photographers dream come true, going 2 minutes from my house to shoot these guys anytime. Then man kind came stomping thru the field with motorcycles, quads and dune buggies and ruined their tranquil and safe habitat. This is one of the last photos of the last adult male. By the last spring he didn't even have a mate left in the field and after watching him cooing an hooting evening after evening trying to attract a mate, he soon left the field for good. Definitely a sad day for me and a few buddies. Fortunately I have literally thousands of nice shots of these guys and as is true in wildlife photography, the situation will eventually change or go away. Here he is just about to touch down after he had taken off and came back with this big bug. We used to call them Potato bugs when I was a kid but I think Jerusalem cricket is the proper name. Hope you like him. 1DX---840mm---f6.3---ss1/3200th---ISO640---Handheld@8:15am Thanks as always for looking and for your input. I appreciate it. Please click on the image to view the larger more detailed file David COME JOIN ME FOR A CUSTOM PERSONALIZED RAPTOR WORKSHOP NOV-MAR 2019/2020. PLEASE PM ME TO ENQUIRE ABOUT PRICING AND AVAILABILITY!
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by Mako_Elite
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