Keeping an eye on things - Image of the Week

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This image was taken of an injured Great Horned Owl that my brother had found on a roadside and brought home to nurse back to health. Trying not to add to the owl’s stress, I used my Nikon D2X with a 70-180mm lens. Heeding the owls clicking warnings, I climbed up on a chair and stood back a few feet as the owl perched upon my parent’s china cabinet. With the macro lens, I was able to get shots not only of the whole owl, but this one of the owls very intense looking eyes. Happily I am able to note that after a couple days rest and some hand fed rattle snake road kill, the owl was able to be released back into the wild.