Safety Harbor Owlet Gets Its Colors Poster

A week has gone by since I last photographed the three little owls and their parents in the Philippe Park "owl tree". Compared to the photo fro, a week ago on this pageThe owlet is much more colorful and growing its striped wings and dark eye coloring around its eyes.. It still isn't moving out of the nest. The gaggle of photographers watched and waited for the parents to fly and the babies to pose. We were not disappointed. I did miss the arrival of breakfast this morning, a rather large rat.

There are other owl photo with adult owls from the same tree. This year, the adult was a little further from the nest. The nest is fairly crowded as they have three owlets this year. Bird watching is very popular here, so at anytime there are a half dozen or so tripods set up under the nest as everyone waits to get the best shot. Both parents take part in providing food for young owls. Young may leave the nest and climb on nearby branches at 5 weeks, can fly at about 9-10 weeks; tended a...

I love to tell stories. About twenty years ago I had my first freelance travel article accepted by a magazine. Much to my surprise, the magazine expected photos along with words. I had not taken any during the preliminary work for my article. I drove back to the site and took the photos for the article with my little Olympus digital camera. The article was published with those very amateur photos. In time, I bought an Olympus OMD-EM5, a great camera for nature and travel photographers and discovered that I enjoyed telling stories with pictures more than I did with words. The last twenty year have been an incredibly exciting time as resources for photographers have exploded. I have been lucky enough to have some great teachers along the way...