It was an interesting Saturday when I went out to the GHO nest to take some photographs.
The one adult that appeared to be around flew off just as I got to the top of the hill. I set up and waited about 40 minutes and finally did spy him far off in a tree. All though too far for a good shot, I had nothing else going so I turned to shoot. Just as I did, an osprey (?) flew in to attack the owl. The owl flew out of the tree and then out of no where his/her mate showed up to help. When it was two on one, the osprey decided to leave but not before a fly by or two of the owl nest. That got the owls really upset. The owls then sat near the nest for some time until they were sure the osprey was gone. With lots of hooting. The images of the battle are a little blurry but I thought folks might enjoy them. And you can see several photographs of the owls standing guard. You'll need to go to my web site. Once you enter, go to the RAPTORS GALLERY. The battle images are the first two listed. I will delete them at the end of next week. WEB ADDRESS: http://photographyontheweb.ifp3.com <http://photographyontheweb.ifp3.com> / PETER WUEBKER pjwuebker at hughes.net <http://mail.hughes.net/cp/ps/Mail/ViewMsgController?d=hughes.net&u=pjwu ebker&an=DefaultMailAccount&t=d13d1&fp=Sent%20Messages&uid=1067##> http://photographyontheweb.ifp3.com/ www.wildlifeforever.org <http://www.wildlifeforever.org/> PETE WUEBKER DIRECTOR OF MARKETING WILDLIFE FOREVER 2700 FREEWAY BLVD #1000 BROOKLYN CENTER MN 55430 763-253-0222 <http://photographyontheweb.ifp3.com/> -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080404/0f024c06/attachment-0001.html -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: image/gif Size: 5162 bytes Desc: image001.gif Url : http://moumn.org/pipermail/mou-net_moumn.org/attachments/20080404/0f024c06/attachment-0001.gif
