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Title
Everythings Fine
Artist
Norman Johnson
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
An adult burrowing owl keeps a watch on its offspring at its nest sight in Cape Coral, Florida.
Burrowing owls (athene cunicularia) can be found in the open landscapes of prairies, desert, grassland, pastures, airports, public parks, and playgrounds of the Americas from western Canada, the United States, including Florida, the Caribbean, Mexico, Central and South America down to Patagonia and Tierra del Fuego in Argentina. They live in underground burrows that they've dug or taken over from a prairie dog, ground squirrel, tortoise, gopher, or gopher turtle.
A small long greyish legged owl, they have a short tail, and a rounded head with bright yellow eyes, white eyebrows, and no ear tufts. They are brown with mottled sandy-pale spots. The breast is buff spotted with brown and the belly is buff with dark brown bars. The have a white/buff throat. They measure from 7.5" to 9.8" in length with a wingspan of about 21.7." The hooked beak is dark yellow or grey. Juveniles are less mottled than adults with a buff belly.
Burrowing owls feed mainly on insects and rodents but east almost anything small that they can catch. They hunt close to the ground from dusk til dawn, during the day. They are most active at dusk and dawn and tend to rest during the middle of the day. They can usually be seen on fence posts, or other vantage points near their burrows. They can often be seen on the ground.
They often carpet the entrance to their burrows with animal dung to attract dung beetles and other insects to eat. To make sure that their nestlings have enough to eat, they often cache extra food in times of plenty. One cache in Saskatchewan in 1997 was filled with more than 200 rodents. When they bob up and down its an indication that they are nervous.
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June 18th, 2019
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Melbourne, FL - United States
Congratulations on your feature in our group, Pure Nature Photography - celebrating the best of our natural world! You are invited to archive it in the 2019 Pure Nature Photography Featured Work Archive discussion thread for longer lasting visibility.
Norman Johnson replied:
I'm really glad you like it Dawn. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "Pure Nature Photography!"
Riverview, FL - United States
I'm really glad you like it John. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "Images That Excite You."
Riverview, FL - United States
I'm really glad you like it Scott. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "FAA Portraits - Birds."
Titusville, FL - United States
Congratulations on your feature in the Fine Art America Group "Images That Excite You!"
Naples, FL - United States
Congratulations Norman, your work is Featured in "A Birding Group - Wings" I invite you to place it in the group's "2019 Featured Image Archive" Discussion!! L/Tweet
Norman Johnson replied:
I'm really glad you like it Don. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "A Birding Group - Wings."
Melbourne, FL - United States
Norman, Congratulations on your feature in our group, Pure Nature Photography - celebrating the best of our natural world! You are invited to archive it in the 2019 Pure Nature Photography Featured Work Archive discussion thread for longer lasting visibility.
Norman Johnson replied:
I'm really glad you like it Dawn. Thank you very much for the feature in the group "Pure Nature Photography!"
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