Don't see this every day...

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Posted by Elliott Neep on March 7, 2007 at 4:43 AM

Hi Everyone,

I haven't posted for a while so I thought I'd go for something quite different. This was shot during the mini-winter that we had about three weeks ago. I was in Lancashire looking for brown hare and spotted this barn owl flying down one of the drains. It must have been starving as it was flying in heavy winds and driving snow (yes that's real snow not photoshop skills

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1DSmkII & 600mm, 1/250 @ F6.3, ISO 400, 20% crop.

Posted by Mark Sisson on March 7, 2007 at 4:54 AM

Like this one a lot Elliott - anything that screams environment as well as subject matter in the way this does is right up my street.

Mark

Posted by Tom_W on March 7, 2007 at 4:58 AM

Nice shot and I agree with Mark in that I appreciate more of the special environ/subject interaction as well.

Posted by Brian McGeough on March 7, 2007 at 4:59 AM

Great shot, and not a common sight at all !!!

Brian

Posted by David Taylor on March 7, 2007 at 5:00 AM

Ditto the above by Mark. Excellent!

Posted by Richard Tynan on March 7, 2007 at 6:08 AM

Very nice. The snow looks good.

I hope the owl was successful

Posted by John Chapman on March 7, 2007 at 6:36 AM

Great shot and I agree with mark.
John
Aberdeen.

Posted by Paul Thomas on March 7, 2007 at 2:12 PM

Excellent shot. It really tells a story.

Paul

Posted by Graeme Lee on March 7, 2007 at 4:41 PM

Very nice Elliott. Don't have a clue about Barnie habits, but I'd make sure any food was delivered to my house on a day like this! Lovely shot and the snow is a real bonus

Graeme

Posted by John Swift on March 8, 2007 at 5:03 AM

Great behavioural image Elliot.

Regards

JohnS

Posted by Mark sellings on March 9, 2007 at 5:29 AM

gorgeous environmental shot of seldom-seen behaviour - love this kind of image

Mark