Owl's Well

Flammulated Owl                                                                          Brad Wilson

Of all the creatures Brad Wilson has photographed ~ and there have been many ~ perhaps his most challenging subjects have been the owls. For this series, he focused on owls at St. Louis's World Bird Sanctuary and Española, New Mexico's Wildlife Center. While we may think first of their eyes when we think of these birds, apparently, it's not so easy to get them to look directly into a camera ~ and, as Wilson discovered, it's also not so easy to gain their trust (story, gorgeous photos): http://www.audubon.org/magazine/january-february-2015/whos-who?utm_source=engagement&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=2015-02-11_email_wingspan