Burrowing Owl

This juvenile is (obviously) about to land on the sagebrush. Upper background is the Great Salt Lake.

I saved four images of this owl landing but all of them were relatively tight horizontally and needed rotation. This one gave me the most room on the sides after rotating. I'd like to have had more DOF but there wasn't much light for flight shots.

7D, 1/1600, f/6.3, ISO 640, 500 f/4, shot from pickup window on 7/12/12, cropped to 77% of original image, exposure adjustment in ACR, rotation, sharpened bird, no additional processing or adjustments, natural light, no bait, no decoy, not set up or called in

Larger image provided

Comments/critique appreciated