ML252373751
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- Sex
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Observation details
I had reached a very dead point on the road, so I played a pygmy owl toot to see if that might wake the birds up. A group of 8 birds flew in, at the very tops of the pines. They were all making a high-pitched trill call that I completely did not recognize. For over an hour, I would play a couple toots from time to time, trying to get a good solid look at one of these noisy birds in the treetops. They flew back and forth often, but they would always fly straight into the most dense sections at the top of the pines. Finally after a mildly infuriating 70 or so minutes if trying to figure out what these strange Evening Grosbeak sized birds were, I heard the call from just a few yards away and much lower down. It was at this point that I realized the only mob I was able to call in was an actual mob of juvenile pygmy owls. This one individual had perched about 20 feet off the road at eye level. It gave me incredible views for probably another 15 minutes, all the while calling back and forth with the others hiding much higher in the trees.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 90D
- Lens
- 150-600mm F5-6.3 DG OS HSM | Contemporary 015
- ISO
- 2000
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/1600 sec
- Dimensions
- 3312 pixels x 2366 pixels
- Original file size
- 6.89 MB