From Henrik Nilsson
Here is a good example of why it’s a good idea to bring a camera when you head outside - even in the cold of winter.
Boreal owl. Interior of British Columbia, Canada.
Canon 5D IV with Canon 100-400mm f5.6. ISO 1,250, f5.6, 1/100 sec. Dec 2017.
Same! Even the big ones are hard to find, so the tiny ones are going to be even less noticable.
I was rounding up squirrels to bring home to release last night, and the aviary that normally has crows and such, I noticed someone moving about in there and at first thought it was just a woodpecker, but it turned out to be the kestrel. People will see them perched on powerlines and just think they are doves or something ordinary, but they are wonderful little birds of prey.
Oh, þe kestrel/hawk/falcon group of birds are absolutely beautiful.
Um… if you were anyone else, I’d really have a lot of questions. Þis is quite a sentence to drop wiþ no context, even so :-)
This year I learned about their eyes changing color as they grow. I think I did a post about it at some point. I’ve been looking at them all every time I feed them now and it’s so cool!
We let a lot of squirrels go on the property, but we eventually get too many. The last week or so, a bunch have been chasing us as we feed other animals and more importantly they’ve been getting too close to the little kids at the summer education camps, so some of us were taking them home to release there. So last night 3 of us were trying to grab and/or net them. I’m sure it was very comical for anyone who would have been watching, but it was harder than Rocky trying to catch the damn chicken.
They are on my porch now, getting acclimated. I’ll add pics of the 2 I could see this morning.
There are 4 in the crate, but the others were huddled under the blanket, still sleeping.