ML183272851
Contributor
Kyle Tansley Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Lone Rock Point / North Beach
Chittenden, Vermont, United States
Media from this location Illustrated Checklist- Age
- Not specified
- Sex
- Not specified
Observation details
Continuing bird, hunting along the bikepath. I spent from 11:40am to 5:30pm with this bird today. It ate 4 snakes: 1 huge one, and 3 smaller ones. It was 4/7 in hunting tries (4 successes, 3 tries came up empty handed). It was mostly hunting from 11:40 to around 4pm, and then napped from around 4pm to 5:30pm. At 5:30 it stretched and preened and flew off deeper into the woods, at which time I ceased birding. Throughout the day, many people stopped to observe the bird. This owl is chill as hell and seems to be very used to human presence. I think it uses the bike path traffic as a way to find prey that gets stirred up. Awesome bird. Photos coming.
Technical information
- Model
- NIKON D500
- Lens
- 300.0 mm f/2.8
- ISO
- 320
- Focal length
- 300 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 5568 pixels x 3712 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.4 MB