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This Short-eared Owl was sitting on the ground. It started walking through the grass, stalking like a cat would. It went quite a distance. When it stopped, it saw/heard its prey and leaped like a cat pouncing on a Townsend's Vole. It wasn't hungry, so it cached its prey in higher grass. Then it immediately started hunting again, just like before. Within 4 minutes, it had caught another vole and proceeded to cache it too.
The plus is my wood carved Northern Hawk Owl. Images 10 and 11 had their background replaced with the background that I had photographed in the real bird image,12, which was my inspiration. The carving depicts the owl just landing, head up hunting and acquiring balance on the thin tree top.
Rex
You captured the essence of the hunt amazingly well, and your carved owl would prolly scare the birds from bombing our cars way better than my plastic owl, heh. Great work!
Eric
beautiful images and carving, Rex. When raptors actually walk, they often remind me of the creatures in Sendak's Where the Wild Things Are, and your owl is no exception
