Great Gray Glide

I spent some time visiting a great gray owl nest site in Yellowstone last year. During one of the visits in early summer, I was able to watch one of the adults hunt in a meadow not far from the nest. In this case, it slowly "parachuted" down toward the grass in an attempt to pounce on some sort of prey (it came up empty).

Canon 1DX
Canon 500mm f/4 IS
ISO 4000
1/640th
f/4
(NR applied to background. Cropped slightly tighter than I'd prefer to remove a distracting BG tree trunk along the edge of the frame. Original crop can be seen in the Print link.)

Max