From Harold Wilion

Things Are Looking Up

Kind of a weird night. These owls have been extremely unpredictable this year. Looking at my photos from last year, almost every night I could find an owl in one hole or another, and then after getting the hole shot, the challenge was to get some perch shots when one flew. I've been coming here for weeks now this year, often without even seeing an owl at all. And when I was lucky enough to get some shots, it was always on a perch, and I haven't seen one in a hole the entire fall. Finally, last night I was able to get a hole shot, but couldn't find her when she flew.

But what was really strange, in the twenty minutes after she popped up out of the hole, the entire time she kept gazing upward into the sky, not making for the kind of poses I really like. Out of that entire 20 minutes, there were maybe a total of 20 seconds where she wasn't fixated on the sky. Who knows, maybe she saw a hawk flying around earlier, or she was looking for her mate, I have no idea.