Burrowing Owl

This is the same perch that the owl in Mia's post of 8/15 used and it may be the same bird though I can't be sure - there were a lot of them. These owls spend most of their time hunkered down in the shade but sometimes in early morning when it's cool we get lucky and catch some of them sunning themselves on a higher perch.

7D, 1/2000, f/7.1, ISO 500, 500 f/4, 1.4 tc, shot from pickup window on 8/13/10, cropped to 51% of original image, slight exposure adjustment in ACR, sharpened bird and perch, NR to background, cloned out a couple of twig tips coming into bottom of frame, no other processing or adjustments, natural light, not baited

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Comments/critique appreciated