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Quand il s’agit de chouettes, j’ai les doigts d’or. 😜

Convergent evolution 😆

No consensus has been reached. Communication and camouflage are the 2 main theories. I don't buy the camo one myself. I don't think they're big enough to make a difference.

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There seems to not be any consensus on if this is an apple or Asian pear. Pear seemed to have the slight majority, so that's what I went with.

Either way, I don't think the variety of fruit detracts from the enjoyment of the photo. ☺️

To most little creatures, any owl might as well be one of the fellbeasts the Nazgul ride on.

I hadn't heard of Ori, but it looks cool, though all the pics and videos I'm looking at are too dark. I'll have to look into it some more. No Xbox, so I'll have to watch a play through.

I always give the photos a critical look since most owls have one eye color, but the Long Ear can have eyes from very yellow to very orange. It always has me looking to see how much manipulation has been done to the image.

Long Eared Owls to me are very striking in navy regards, but to a tasteful, restrained amount. The eyes, facial disc, plumicorns, and overall coloration. They're bold, but not over the top.

It's one of my top owls, but it's usually not so popular here, and maybe that is why - they don't have that one thing to capture attention.

Hadouken!

I did see, I went back and corrected my post once I saw the others.

Nature photography seems to present a lot of challenges as you pointed out earlier. You only can carry so much equipment and you have a subject with no interest in cooperating that can move at any moment. It makes it all the more impressive, even to get less than ideal shots.

It only put up one with a pair of butterflies. I like it though. All the appendages stand out nicely and you see some details of the eyes. The one flying is also nice and clear looking.

I live near some water, and it would be cool to catch some of the dragonflies like this to get a nice look at them.

Edit: Now I see you broke them out. And you even had a dragonfly! I like that and that fuzzy little bee face too. I've been trying to post better attention to all the unique bee types we have as well.

You seem to know what you want and you enjoy doing it, so I'd call that successful.

Do you share any of your pics online?