ML30132181
Contributor
Nick Saunders Media from this contributor Profile
Date
Location
Spring Valley Guest Ranch
Maple Creek, Saskatchewan, Canada
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- Tags
- Watermark
Observation details
When we arrived at Spring Valley Guest Ranch for a lunch break, the owner Jim Saville mentioned that he had heard the whinny of the eastern screech owl near the creek north of his house earlier in the spring. We walked there but got no reply to playing its call. When we returned to the house and played the call, Stan Shadick immediately saw a grey phase bird fly across his back yard and sit in a tree long enough for all 5 of us to see it. I obtained photos. We noticed its distinctive size with short ear tufts, grey colour with black markings on face. John Patterson later recorded its whinny call after it flew north towards the creek. Some farm workers mentioned that they had heard the call that morning near the house.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- ISO
- 800
- Focal length
- 600 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire, auto
- f-stop
- f/8.0
- Shutter speed
- 1/250 sec
- Dimensions
- 1230 pixels x 986 pixels
- Original file size
- 834.53 KB