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OK, this is much of an art photo, but I just saw my first long-eared owl (Asio otus)! Here it is in all it’s camouflage-ness. There were actually a pair of them, but this is the only one I got a photo of. I could have stalked them and maybe got more photos, but especially in spring when birds are breeding I prefer to leave them alone to do their thing.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

Taken with a Canon 5d, 300mm, f5.6 at 1\/160 of a second.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

OK, this is much of an art photo, but I just saw my first long-eared owl (Asio otus)! Here it is in all it’s camouflage-ness. There were actually a pair of them, but this is the only one I got a photo of. I could have stalked them and maybe got more photos, but especially […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[736],"tags":[2249,2250,838,2251,2247,2248,436,51],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wildlife-2","tag-asio","tag-asio-otus","tag-birds","tag-camouflage","tag-long-eared-owl","tag-longeared-owl","tag-pair","tag-spring"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\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