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1. Stunning photos as usual, Inese 🙂 Posts like this are a real hoot! 😉 ♥ ❤

   1. Haha, thank you so much! ❤

2. Your photos of the owls are so gorgeous. What amazing creatures!

   1. Thank you so much for stopping by! I was lucky to see them all in a falconry.

3. Amazing photographs, Inese!! Pressed to reblog later!! Happy Halloween! 🙂

   1. Thank you Patrick 🙂 Don’t put them in a horror story though 🙂 Happy Halloween!

      1. hahahahahahahaa!!!!!! Too funny Inese!

4. Wow. Really beautiful birds. have a great week-end!
   Marianne

   1. Thank you so much Marianne!

5. They sure are beautiful, and the awol does have a bit of a crazy eye…….

   1. You would love being around them. Color of their eyes says about their hunting habits – day or night.

      1. Really? That´s interesting. I do know though that with those eyes they do have sort of night visión googles.

         1. The owls in my pictures have three eye colors – red, orange, and brown. The last ones hunt in the daytime; the red-eyed both day and night, and the orange-eyed are nocturnal. Hope I remember it right 🙂

            1. Quite fascinating creatures. WordPress, my free online university. How else in the world would I know this if I wasn´t here. Asking the barman who has been 50 yers of his 70 years in the same town where I live?

               1. Haha, love your sense of humor :).
                  I learned from the owl caretaker. He is hanging around with them some 15 years.

                  1. He probably even knows what their mood is just by looking at them

6. Great conversation by birds! I was laughing hard when reading your post 🙂 Truly enjoyable to read and I love their expressions! Thank you for sharing amazing images of them 🙂 ❤

   1. Thank you Indah! Your sea creatures make me smile too – their ‘face expressions’ can be so sweet and funny 🙂

7. Such a lovely collection of movement, quiet, poised stealth.

   1. Their body language, all that neck wringing is so comical. They have fourteen neck vertebrae, no wonder they can rotate their neck up to 270 degrees. The set of the first three photographs is taken within just a few seconds – these ‘faces’ and body movements are hilarious 🙂 And then suddenly they are motionless again, slowly blinking their beautiful eyes – they have three eyelids; you can see them in one of the photographs. I could watch them endlessly. Last summer I wrote a blog and mentioned a baby owl I had a privilege to hold in my lap ( she came to me to hide herself!). So you can guess I have had many moments of pure happiness in my life 🙂

      1. The owl came to you? Well, that settles it–you are truly blessed in your skill. When nature bestows approval upon us, I can’t help but feel a touch of the divine.

         1. Yes, that little, fluffy, seven weeks old girl walked to me :). It was during the show. She was sitting in the grass with all the crowd around. I was there too, on my knees, taking pictures. Then some children were allowed to touch her, and that was it – she just walked up to me and hid herself under my jacket, and then climbed in my lap and fell asleep! So we sat there like that until the crowd went away and a caretaker took her from me… I was in awe.

            1. She saw you as refuge! Even more amazing. That’s a story to tell your grandchildren, to be sure. In fact, I think that’s the most Snow-White-In-Real-Life moment I’ve ever heard. Love it! (PS–Be on the lookout for strange hags bearing apples…)

               1. 🙂 There was no one who would take a picture of us. My hands were busy protecting her. You are right, I felt very special 🙂

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8. Absolutely gorgeous! And now I know what they’re saying when they make those faces! They’re so beautiful. That white owl on Mayfield’s website looks like he ought to cut back on treats a bit! LOL! 😆

   1. They are so spoiled with attention, and very dramatic, like divas:). They so love their caretakers! The treat is a chunk of rabbit meat. I put a leather glow on, and a piece of raw meat on it. The birds spot the snack from far away. It is so exciting when they fly straight to you and land on your arm.
      I have seen the owl chicks – I think i have a picture of one somewhere in the blog. Cuteness is simply overwhelming.

9. Great photos and i love the captions that go with them! 🙂

   1. Thank you so much Carol!

10. Very beautiful birds.

    1. Thank you Gustavo! 🙂

11. Oh, Inese, these are perfect. Your one liners are pure genius and those faces!
    I’ve looked and looked and your photos of birds are second to none. I love birds and it’s taken me 10 years to finally draw a nice mix to our property. I’ve always taken it for granted that every home would automatically come with it’s own supply of live-in birds but, that wasn’t the case when we moved here.
    Now, the weather allows for open windows and the cool air is delicious. I’d like for the birds to start their baths and joyous singing a couple hours later but this is a grand improvement over living without birds.

    1. Thank you Sheri, I am so happy that this post put a smile on your face :). I too love birds and your idea of that home+birds package sounds perfect to me.
       Tonight, driving home, a saw a huge wild owl – he flew very low across the road, right behind my car ( it was a sharp turn on the old road I use as a shortcut).

       1. I love owls. When Tom and I moved into what we thought was going to be our retirement home in NC, I asked my dad to make me an Owl House from old barn wood. We had owls on the property and thought it would be wonderful to have one actually nest. Dad built the huge house to specifications and Tom borrowed a ladder from a friend (we didn’t have one that would go high enough) and he went to the top of that ladder and then carried the heavy house while he continued to climb high into a pine to set the house. It was perfect for an owl to fly straight into. I knew from reading that was what our breed of owl on the property demanded for nesting. It took a little over a year but we finally had our resident owl. Of course when we left there, we had to leave the owl house behind. Once they move into a home they prefer to be life time residents the same as they are with their mates. Dad’s gone now and there’s no barn wood to be had anywhere but I like to think about the owls having a super deluxe house high in the sky on a beautiful piece of acreage with babbling brook within a stones throw.

          1. What a beautiful story! I am so sorry that you had to leave the house and the owls. So not fair.

             1. As a friend recently told me in sharing a story of his own, the word fair is not to be found in the Bible. I’ve thought of that often.

                1. Your friend is right. (sigh)

       2. Owl numer 2 looks like he was carved from wood. Great photos. I love owls.

          1. Thank you so much for reading!

12. These are incredible ~ you capture the spirit of their eyes so well, and also them in flight. Great, great shots!

    1. Thank you! That was easy – they are professional models 🙂

13. Fantastic! I love owls! Going to like their page and must make a note to visit the next time I go to Ireland (whenever that might be!)

    1. Thank you Olga! Aren’t they sweet? They love their caretakers so passionately.

14. You are very gifted.I absolutely love the one of the owl in flight!

    1. Thank you for your kind comment. It is all about exposure and lens – no gift needed 🙂

15. Great pictures! I love the “Are you kidding me?” one. I’m going to practice it on my kids later.

    1. Thank you for listening to the conversation 🙂 These birds have a very expressive ‘face’ and body language. Try also to wring your neck as in the picture next after the one you mentioned 😉

       1. I’ll have a try! 😀

16. Such beautiful birds, with really great names. Lovely photos, Inese, and the conversation is excellent! I love the way you’ve captuted the barn owl in flight, too. Your photo really shows up the wonderul face.

    1. Thank you so much for your comment! I could spend hours just watching them. I realize that this is not their real ‘face’ but I want to believe it is 🙂

17. I greatly admire your photos of these birds of prey. This is a wonderful post and I look forward to many more coming from your blog. Always brighten up my day 😀

    1. Thank you for stopping by! 🙂

18. Wow! Great bird images! Birds are definitely one of my favorite things to photograph! Would love to go see them!

    1. Thank you so much! I know you would love them 🙂 We had about three hours for photographing and simply watching and admiring these beauties.

19. Stunning captures, dear Inese… sending love and best wishes for your weekend . Aquileana ✨☺️

    1. Thank you friend, glad you like my pictures. Have a wonderful weekend! Love and hugs
       Inese

20. I love owls…I’m a night owl 😉

    1. Aren’t they the cutest creature ever. Thank you for stopping by!

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