this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2024
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Photo by Paul Lally

A juvenile great horned owl is captured dangling in an awkward position after crash-landing high in a small grove of aspen trees. Apparently the ability to fly precedes any skill at landing in the early stages of their development. Somehow I manged to get off just one shot of this most unusual moment, before it flew off to try again.

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[โ€“] [email protected] 9 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Could have became a bat, decided to stay owl.

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

No taste for bugs ๐Ÿ˜

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Mr Ethan Hunt at it again. Dum dum dumdum dum dum dumdum dum dum๐ŸŽถ

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

โ€œDangit! Stupid branches, stay still. Ugh, now I gotta - HEY! No pictures! No! - aw cheese it letโ€™s go!โ€

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I'm sure once it righted itself, it did the cat thing of quickly cleaning itself and acting like nothing happened. ๐Ÿ˜†

[โ€“] [email protected] 5 points 1 month ago

โ€œIโ€™m sure I donโ€™t know how you mean.โ€

preens

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

"No, I'm just doing stretches! I totally meant to do that!"

This is why they are called sky cats sometimes.