Photo by Paul Lally
A juvenile great horned owl is captured dangling in an awkward position after crash-landing high in a small grove of aspen trees. Apparently the ability to fly precedes any skill at landing in the early stages of their development. Somehow I manged to get off just one shot of this most unusual moment, before it flew off to try again.
8 Comments
jupyter_rain@discuss.tchncs.de · 9 pts · 2y
Could have became a bat, decided to stay owl.
anon6789@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
No taste for bugs 😁
You@feddit.de · 8 pts · 2y
Mr Ethan Hunt at it again. Dum dum dumdum dum dum dumdum dum dum🎶
anon6789@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 2y
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
“Dangit! Stupid branches, stay still. Ugh, now I gotta - HEY! No pictures! No! - aw cheese it let’s go!”
anon6789@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 2y
I'm sure once it righted itself, it did the cat thing of quickly cleaning itself and acting like nothing happened. 😆
homesweethomeMrL@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 2y
“I’m sure I don’t know how you mean.”
preens
tired_lemming@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 2y
"No, I'm just doing stretches! I totally meant to do that!"
This is why they are called sky cats sometimes.