Daypass

by The Philosophical Fish

The weather has been nice the past two weekends, nice enough that patio season has officially arrived.  We’d just sat down on the patio at Hearthstone brewery – a sunny day required sitting in the sun with a beer in hand – and ordered our drinks and some (amazingly delicious) maple bourbon wings.

While we waited for our drinks to arrive, I looked across the parking lot to the tree above where we’d parked our truck and noticed something in the branches. At first I thought it was just a plastic bag, blown into and caught up in the twigs. But it didn’t seem right.

Kirk turned to look at what I was staring at and said “raptor?”.

I shook my head, the shoulders weren’t right, too bulky up top.

Then it turned its head and I could see the tufts on either side…”Owl!”.

I had my little camera with me and went over for a few shots, which were challenging since the sun was behind him. He just looked down at me with a haughty regal expression, and went back to looking annoyed at the crows diving at him.

It’s funny how no one saw him until I stood there staring up into the tree, then all of a sudden he had a little audience 🙂

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Hans Pannerup Rasmussen March 31, 2018 - 7:24 pm

Multipass?

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Paige Ackerman March 31, 2018 - 7:45 pm

Mul-ti-pass!

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Paige Ackerman March 31, 2018 - 7:46 pm

Damn you, now that’s going to be stuck in my head for days!

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Hans Pannerup Rasmussen March 31, 2018 - 7:52 pm

watching it right now…

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lgflickr1 April 1, 2018 - 2:59 am

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Dis da fi we (was Hickatee) April 1, 2018 - 4:41 am

wonderful image, well done.

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karendunne337 April 1, 2018 - 5:26 am

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Sue90ca Here Comes Peter Cottontail April 1, 2018 - 11:47 am

fantastic series, nice
Happy Easter
Sue

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Missy2004 April 1, 2018 - 6:32 pm

Must have fancied a pint
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linda_lou2 April 2, 2018 - 1:36 am

Great capture! Seen in
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sure2talk April 3, 2018 - 9:09 pm

Beautiful owl.
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