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Short-eared owl
A short-eared owl (as noted by their short ear tufts) hunting at dusk over a field that is part of the Cosumnes river drainage. At one point I observed two of these patrolling a field looking for prey like voles. At the same time a female Norther Harrier was patrolling the same fields. Getting a close-up was quite challenging as like most birds they keep their distance from humans. This shot was based on a highly cropped image using a cropped sensor body (Canon 50D) with a 500mm f/4 lens plus a 1.4x teleconverter to get even further reach.
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