That is so cool you can see the outline of the owl in the top of the Spruce Tree in your image!
Sent from my iPhone donna Scott > On Jun 22, 2015, at 12:09 PM, Suan Hsi Yong <suan.y...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On Mon, Jun 22, 2015 at 9:51 AM, Meena Madhav Haribal <m...@cornell.edu> >> wrote: >> PS: Yesterday around 5.00 am there was a Great Horned Owl calling from >> Strawberry Hills woods. >> > On Friday night when I got home at 10:30pm, a Great Horned Owl was hooting > away atop a spruce tree right outside my house in Commonland. I got some > video with my infrared camera (including two bouts of hooting in the audio): > > https://www.flickr.com/photos/50094151@N03/18867923880/ > > Remarkably, even though it was pretty cool then (felt around 60, airport > reading 55), the bird did not register warmer than the spruce tree! ... > except for the facial disc and undertail area. > > It was dark and I could not see it visually, despite its proximity. The owl > seemed confident in its invisibility and paid me no heed, that is until I > started making squeaky noises to get it to look down at me. It finally took > off when I sneezed. > > Suan > > -- > Cayugabirds-L List Info: > Welcome and Basics > Rules and Information > Subscribe, Configuration and Leave > Archives: > The Mail Archive > Surfbirds > BirdingOnThe.Net > Please submit your observations to eBird! > -- -- Cayugabirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/CayugabirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/cayugabirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/Cayugabirds 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/CAYU.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
