Northern Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium californicum

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Northern Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium californicum
Northern Pygmy-Owl / Glaucidium californicum

Friday, 13 November 2020: our temperature at 8:00 am is -6C (windchill -10C). Sunrise is at 7:50 am and sunset is at 4:49 pm. Forecast is for partly sunny this morning and mainly cloudy this afternoon. Not the greatest, but the forecast this evening and tomorrow is for a few flurries.

"The Northern Pygmy-Owl may be tiny, but it’s a ferocious hunter with a taste for songbirds. These owls are mostly dark brown and white, with long tails, smoothly rounded heads, and piercing yellow eyes. They hunt during the day by sitting quietly and surprising their prey. As a defensive measure, songbirds often gather to mob sitting owls until they fly away. Mobbing songbirds can help you find these unobtrusive owls, as can listening for their call, a high-pitched series of toots." From AllAboutBirds.

www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Northern_Pygmy-Owl/id

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_pygmy_owl"

Yesterday, 12 November 2020, I actually got out for one of my rare walks. The motivation was to see if this tiny owl, no bigger than the size of a man's fist or popcan, could be seen. Though I have seen this kind of owl many times before, it was still such a thrill when several friends and I (all of us wearing masks) were lucky enough to see this one yesterday. I don't know how the person who first spotted it was able to find it from so far away. Thank goodness for camera zoom.

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Taken on: November 12, 2020
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Camera: Canon PowerShot SX60 HS, f/6.5, 1/400 sec, 247mm, ISO 100 (more info) (hide info)
Camera: Canon PowerShot SX60 HS
Lens: 3.8-247.0 mm
Aperture: f/6.5
Exposure Time: 0.003 sec (1/400)
Focal Length: 247mm
ISO: 100
Exposure Bias: 0 EV
Flash: Off, Did not fire
Exposure Mode: Auto
Metering Mode: Multi-segment
White Balance: Auto
Color Space: sRGB
Software: Adobe Photoshop Elements 12.0 Windows
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