On a cold wintry day, a friend and I drove out to Lake County to see a family of Long-eared Owls. The walk was a couple miles back into the forest. The streams and wetlands were frozen over, making it a difficult hike into the forest area, where 9 long-eared owls were perched.
There were so many photographers hiking in and so close to the owls, I know the owls were upset and disturbed by the large groups of photographers. I had later heard and found it so very sad that they ran the owls out of that forest. Even more sad that I was a part of this invasion into their private world. This was the last owl photo I took due to not wanting to exploit, and or disturb any Owl's. I'm not saying I wouldn't take an Owl photo again, but only if I saw it on a nature hike, and wouldn't disturb it.
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This photo is absolutely amazing it stuck me just on a random search stemmed from a Bing Background of a long eared owl, long story story I wasn’t even sure if it was a real photo because of just the intensity of the details until I clicked and this came up and I read further & the emotion in this owls eyes sent chills through my body, beautiful creature and you can see and feel the emotions in his eyes it hit me and I am glad to read how you saw with all the photographers around was causing them stress and I think you captured it and understood, not to ramble 🙂 I just want taken back by this amazing photo. Thank you for sharing!