Air Attack
by Randy Hall
Title
Air Attack
Artist
Randy Hall
Medium
Photograph - Photograph
Description
Sometimes the easiest way to find an owl is to listen for robins or other birds raising a ruckus. In this case, a pair of robins were not happy with a barred owl. Could be that the owl had been after the robins' nest or just too close for comfort.
The two robins took turns "buzzing" the owl, sometimes getting so close as to ruffle the owl's feathers. Conditions were darkening by the minute, so I was happy to get this capture before it got too dark to shoot.
The owl put up with the air attack for a few minutes before it finally decided it had enough. Taking flight, the owl had the two robins in hot pursuit.
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August 18th, 2014
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Comments (13)
Larry Kniskern
Congratulations, Randy – your wild owl has been featured by the Go Take a Hike Photography Group! Feel free to add it to the 2023 Featured Images thread in the group discussion board for archive.
William Tasker
Fabulous! Love it! Your beautiful and identified bird image has been featured by Wild Birds Of The World, a nature photography group. L/F
Randy Hall replied:
Thank you William. I appreciate the feature in the Wild Birds of the World group.
David Walker
Bet this was like finding a ghost in your picture you couldnt have planed it. nice capture
Randy Hall replied:
Thank you David. Actually, it was planned. I had about 20 attempts, and this was the best. Some of the others showed only a wingtip, only tail feathers, or no robin at all. Glad I finally got lucky.
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