ML618032536
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Observation details
Interesting encounter. I was quietly standing still on the loop trail when an adult BADO flew up from the ground behind a patch of tangles and moved back into the trees. A few seconds later another flew up and landed on a tree branch close by. This one noticed me and immediately flew in and landed at eye level in a multiflora rose bush not 20 feet in front of me and started thrashing around, acting like it was injured while looking straight at me. It then flew back to the tree and turned to stare at me. This repeated two more times, then the bird perched about 30 feet away and kept watching me, occasionally calling a sort of quiet rising one note call I hadn't heard before. I'm guessing the pair have young that have recently fledged and are near or on the ground back in the tangles and the adult was doing a distraction display, sort of like a killdeer. This pair has been nesting in this spot for a number of years and I've seen owlets in years past but couldn't get eyes on them today.
Technical information
- Model
- Canon EOS 7D Mark II
- Lens
- EF100-400mm f/4.5-5.6L IS II USM
- ISO
- 250
- Focal length
- 400 mm
- Flash
- Flash did not fire
- f-stop
- f/5.6
- Shutter speed
- 1/80 sec
- Dimensions
- 3362 pixels x 2744 pixels
- Original file size
- 4.48 MB