Landscape Went looking for snowy owls

[-ST-]

I'm visiting family, and it's become a tradition to go birding when I'm here. It was an uncommonly cold day (-17 degrees), so we rarely got out of the car. Instead, we cruised along slowly, scanning the tops of fence posts, and light and power posts. Three hundred kilometres later, this was the most interesting thing I saw.

• ILCE-1
• Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II (SEL70200GM2) + 2X Teleconverter (SEL20TC)
• 140.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/2000 sec
• ISO 640

No, there are no snowy owls in this photo.

 

[Unframed Dave]

You could have kept us looking.

 

[etiennescamera]

I'm visiting family, and it's become a tradition to go birding when I'm here. It was an uncommonly cold day (-17 degrees), so we rarely got out of the car. Instead, we cruised along slowly, scanning the tops of fence posts, and light and power posts. Three hundred kilometres later, this was the most interesting thing I saw.

No, there are no snowy owls in this photo.

I love road tripping and I love road photos, so this really is a pretty interesting photo for me.

 

[Phil Vetra]

ST I was up Morinville way over the holiday and missed them by 2 weeks. I was checking the birding app on the computer and they where way down East of Calgary about a 5 hour drive. Oh well there's next year!

 

[Merlinator]

I’m I Alberta right now looking for snowy owls. Saw 4 yesterday, just heading out to seek owls today

 

[Thad E Ginathom]

Three hundred kilometres later, this was the most interesting thing I saw

Sorry for your zero-success owl spotting, but that is a lovely picture.

 

[-ST-]

For my last day away, we went on another road trip to look for snowy owls. This involved scanning the tops of fence posts and low, barren trees for the outlines of something white against the mostly white background of snow.

• ILCE-1
• Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II (SEL70200GM2) + 2X Teleconverter (SEL20TC)
• 140.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 320

In about four hours of driving around, here's the only thing we saw atop a fence post.

• ILCE-1
• Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II (SEL70200GM2) + 2X Teleconverter (SEL20TC)
• 140.0 mm
• ƒ/6.3
• 1/1000 sec
• ISO 400

• ILCE-1
• Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II (SEL70200GM2) + 2X Teleconverter (SEL20TC)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 160

• ILCE-1
• Sony FE 70-200mm F2.8 GM OSS II (SEL70200GM2) + 2X Teleconverter (SEL20TC)
• 400.0 mm
• ƒ/5.6
• 1/500 sec
• ISO 200

So, it was another day without seeing an owl. but we had fun.

 

[Phil Vetra]

Funny look'n Snowy Owl