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Sleeping beauty
raulqc

Sleeping beauty (Megascops asio)

Eastern screech owl sleeping on a cavity.
Habitat
pine flatwood
Location
Corkscrew Swamp Sanctuary, Florida
Date taken
01/12/2008
Scientific name
Megascops asio
Equipment used
Canon 40D, 500mm, 1.4TC
You must have extremely sharp eyes to spot this so well camouflaged fellow... or helped you the snores? ;) Very good, Raul!!! :t: :t: :loveme:
 
Congratulations on taking joint second in the July 2008 theme challenge 'Camouflaged Birds'.

All 48 entries were included in the voting booth for members to select their favourite entry. 89 members cast their vote.

Voting was pretty close for most of the time but one entry gradually edged a little ahead of the rest of the field.

First place -
Chris Kotze with Scops Owl(1) which attracted 11/89 votes.

Second place was a three way split all taking 6/89 votes.

raulqc with Sleeping Beauty
jtwood with Savanna Nightjar
alan carr with Fireynecked Nightjar

Congratulations to the winners
 

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