My Canon D60 wasn't working, we suspect that the many many years old batteries are shot, so Phil loaned us his tricked out Nikon I-don't-even-wanna-know, but I put my 550EX flash on it. Being Canon and Nikon they didn't talk to each other, so all of these are manual focus (no flash assist light, and the camera was set up so that it had shutter lock-up and some other settings that weren't good for birding) and I wasn't thinking about the flash and focal length, so I could have stopped a bunch of these down for better focus, and didn't. Practice makes better. As the twilight waned, we stopped by one field where there was this little rabbit, and used him for flash calibration. We were kinda hoping that one of the owls swooping overhead would come down and munch the little guy, but no such luck.
There are owls everywhere, although seemed like there were a few fewer out than when we went later on the evening of the 3rd, but...
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The highlight of the evening was definitely watching these little birds get fed. Note in this sequence that one of 'em has a rodent hanging out of his mouth after the parent leaves.
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And a bunch more of that same group, which we watched (and were
watched by) for a while.
