Today was the Berrien Springs CBC which covers St Joe. Despite windy (and very bright) overnight conditions we had the best night of owling I've been a part of with double digit owls, mostly screech, but also a Great Horned or two. It was bright enough that we saw probably a third of them fly in or away, the last of which was just as it was getting light. This pic is hand held at 1/25th of a second (and then post-processed brighter)
I tried the flash which allowed me to push the shutter all the way up to 1/50th. This was the first time I've had to try to fix red-eye on a bird.
The Snowy irruption has been well documented. I've yet to run across a close bird (or really that many birds at all; I've driven the Linco/Scottdale/Totzke section several times and seen none there despite others' success).
This one was at New Buffalo sometime last week.
I think on that same trip we had a Red-shouldered tee up nicely along the edge of some random parking lot.
Finally a young Harrier somewhere in the south county plains
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