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I present to you the bird that photos were in Poland recently taken from all sides probably most often (11/2013) . But popularity and interest aroused with its arrival is not surprising at all. Particularly because an opportunity to observe a representative of this species in Poland and additionally in such an easy way happens extremely seldom. This Owl is indeed "on duty" in Lutobork, where it can be found any time and available to photograph easily. Obviously it is hardly possible to find two pictures of the same value, but during my photo shoot, or it is better to say - our (my greetings to Paul and Luke, with whom in a relaxed atmosphere, despite freezing cold, I had the pleasure to photograph this magnificent bird), there was no light. Photos taken in the frosty morning have their specific character, but weather forecasted for that day should have been completely different. It was to be a beautiful sunrise, and it turned out that the sun did not peeped out from behind the clouds even for a moment. At least in the morning. Many photos were blurry and lacking the warm hue. Not to mention that it was absolutely impossible to use shorter exposure times to take much better, dynamic shots. What was astonishing the Owl behaved quite as a tame bird, completely ignoring cars or people passing by. Once it even flew about a meter away from me. Amazing impression when so beautiful and rare bird is at your fingertips and you can feel on your face the whirlwind caused by its flight. Sparrows keep a greater distance to people. But not owls. There is an analogy to photographed recently Eurasian Pygmy Owl and its behavior. In some photos the Owl is in an urban environment but it really was like that. Creating my galleries I always try to show the natural environment of the animal presented and to achieve this aim I publish sometimes large amounts of pictures (Great Bustard, White-tailed Eagle, Buzzard). Let’s get back to the session and the lighting conditions. It was a pity that it looked like that because the essence of shooting so fast raptor is taking a dynamic photo on-the-fly. I put a few pictures, but the vast majority ended up in the trash. The speed of its flight, the lack of light and the frost delaying reflexes did not allow me to capture the charm of this bird fully. However, I managed to take some pictures that document my first encounter with this species. The Northern Hawk-Owl lives in the northern part of Eurasia and North America. It weighs about 300-350 grams, with a wingspan of about 80 cm. It has been posing for over a month yet and it looks as if it is in good shape. Who knows, maybe already settled for a substantial amount of time? It would be beautiful and interesting complement to our native species. So the gallery was created, unfortunately without my own audio recordings of the Hawk-Owl. All this short time was devoted to a photo session, besides that the Owl did not cooperate acoustically. It was virtually silent. Few quiet sounds would not make an interesting recording. However, I invite you to my photo gallery of the Northern Hawk-Owl...
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