Category: Birds
Male Snowy Owl in flight over the snow covered fields . . . visiting angels from the north.
Category: Birds
A male Snowy Owl taking in the scenery on a sunny, late winter day.
Category: Birds
Watching short-eared owls on the hunt is one of life's little joys along the journey . . .
Category: Birds
A short-eared owl dive-bombs for a vole in the Illinois prairie. They can change directions on a dime, and truly a joy to watch them as they float, hover, dive and then move on with their moth-like wing flaps.
Category: Birds
Instead of a golden hour, it was more like a few golden minutes. Tom Skilling said the clouds might break toward the end of the day, but they held tight until the very end when the sun finally emerged from the main cloud layer only to sink into another layer of clouds before it disappeared into the horizon . . .