Helpful Posts: This is the first Snowy that we spotted close up, we were driving down the road to another spot that we had stopped at to look for a lost glove and there she was sitting with her back to us facing into the breeze on the top of a telephone pole. We were able to get out of the car and worked our way about 50ft closer, she knew we were there as she would turn and take a quick glance. Finally she turned her head letting out a couple of squacks telling us not to get closer.
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20th January 2015, 05:27 PM #1
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Another Snowy from Amherst Island
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21st January 2015, 01:46 AM #2
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Re: Another Snowy from Amherst Island
Allan, how do you know she is a "she"? Looks like she is laughing at you by her expression. A little bit too bright for my taste, but is a grab shot so it is OK...
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21st January 2015, 02:05 AM #3
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Re: Another Snowy from Amherst Island
Neat spotting! Too bad you didn't have your 800 mm!
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21st January 2015, 03:44 AM #4
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Re: Another Snowy from Amherst Island
Izzie it is easy to tell the sex of the mature Snowy Owls, mature males are quite large and almost pure white in colouring, Females have a lot of brown mixed in, which almost makes it almost impossible to spot them if they are on the snow covered ground with dead grass and bare spots. When you get up close to them at white is almost blinding it is so white.
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21st January 2015, 03:47 AM #5
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Re: Another Snowy from Amherst Island
Nick I do not have a 800mm as I am not a birder but more of landscaper. What I was using was the older 80-400m mated to a D90 which is a cropped sensor camera so full out equal to about 600mm.
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21st January 2015, 09:55 AM #6
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Re: Another Snowy from Amherst Island
Thanks for the info Allan...I do not think I will be able to see one anytime soon. I had once, but I am not really sure because although my shot is recognizable as an owl and squeak like an owl, was told it was an owl, my shot was blurred so I chuck it out. That was in my Florida shoot about 4 visits ago.
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21st January 2015, 02:33 PM #7
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Re: Another Snowy from Amherst Island
I don't know of who does commonly use 800 mm lenses, most birder-shots I see are done with 3-maybe 600mm, though.
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21st January 2015, 02:58 PM #8
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Re: Another Snowy from Amherst Island
Nick most of those I have seen and met that were using the 800mm (canon) were also serious critter shooters also. Now Amherst Island is easy to get to (for us) and wide open which I believe is the reason the owls winter over there a lot. You are very luck if you find one that is only 50yds away most are in the 200-300yd distance. The other thing was most were shooting with crop sensor cameras not full frame. One well known bird and critter shooter from the U.S. is Moose Peterson, if you look at his work most of his tight shots are with the Nikkor 800mm on the D4s.
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