Backyard friends (1 Viewer)

There's a couple of Tropical Screech-Owls in my area. I've always seen them and took some pictures before. This past week however I decided to try to make a special photo of them. So I put out a multi-flash setup at the backyard, under two big avocado trees. A somewhat "secluded" place, just what this species likes.

At the first night they came in to playback within a couple minutes, but would not come much close, probably worried with all those flashes. The next night one of them came right away and landed at the right spot, where I shot quite a few good photos, like the two below:





Then it suddenly flew off and I didn't see where (they are so silent flying). I looked around at the full moon light and can't see its silhouete. I avoid turning on the flashlight as I found out that will scare them away sometimes, or make them much more suspicious.

Anyway, I look around and find it perched on one of my flashes! It just stayed there for 15 minutes allowing an extreme close approach from me. At times I was no more than 2 feet away, and it didn't show any signs of minding my presence at all! And it also didn't mind the flash going off either!





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