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フクロウ III：飛翔と枝どまりと

Ural Owl of Japan 2020-2021 winter

We love owl "Strix", especially better flying than perched. For example Short-eared owl in most cases is observed flying scene because hunts baits in the air. Ural owl, however, does the same perched on a branch. At that time unusually for Ural owls flew around under the territorial dispute and yet from the daytime.

フクロウ飛翔。今は誰でも簡単に飛びモノが撮れますね。良い時代になりました👏

フクロウの写真と言うと枝どまりか木洞の中、お約束の枝どまりを最後に一枚。

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フクロウ II：飛翔, 光の中へ

Ural Owl flying.

Ural Owl flew from the dark shade into the glare sunlight. I set camera, sony A9 and 600mm/f4 with teleconverter, exposure compensation -2 f stop might be correct because so much dark in the background. We like such pics like these target in the dark.

陽が沈んだ山影から眩い斜光の中へ。逆光で近かったので好きな写真になってくれました。

Recent photographic equipment evolution especially AF makes easier for shooting the target in tough situation.

鳴きながら飛んで不思議なシーンでした。

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フクロウ I：二羽の接近遭遇

Two Ural Owls close encounter.

Naturally, Owl is a nocturnal bird you know. We found at 3 pm, moreover two owls under dispute. Yes, rare! We were in luck.

枯野に強い西陽が差し込む中、突如として二羽のフクロウが絡みました。(この季節なのに陽炎が…)

せっかくノートリなのに、あっち向きw　なので2枚だけ。地元のお友達はつかみ合いの瞬間をバッチリ、私は残念賞でした。

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2020年のタンチョウ家族：幼鳥と見守る親鳥のひと時

Japanese cranes 2020

This is a family of red-crowned crane (Grus japonensis), two juveniles fledged this year. Parent birds had took care and protected their juveniles against enemies like fox and bird of prey. Do you know such a place where observing wild them within 5m and photographing by 24mm wide lens? This is it!!

今年生まれた丹頂の子供2羽とお父さん・お母さんです。ここは広い範囲を見渡せる場所で、お父さんは高い所から周囲を見て、お母さんは外側をガードしています。

久しぶりに静かでレアなここへ寄って来ました。流石にこの距離(24mmレンズ)での撮影は1分ほどです。(今回、撮影・観光目的ではないので野鳥撮影機材はありません)

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Exposure setting and developing for Short-eared Owl.

Okay, we post two shots included a front face reposting pic used for a short limited time last month in response to a request by anonymous. And it will be the answer that I made exposure compensation in A mode '-2 f stop' at the photographing because the target looked so whitish against the dark woods in the background. Edited contrast low slightly by Lightroom and just resizing by Photoshop with no cropping no trimming no editing. That's all, thx!

We unfortunately have no wildbird-photographing plan for the time being.

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