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I was on a birding shoot with several others driving around and looking for snowy owls. Apparently the leader had heard about this owl being in this area and drove by. We saw a crowd of people -- and this was only half of them -- with artillery two blocks away. I thought it was funny -- I didn't know so many people in the Toronto area owned so many long lenses.
 
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I was on a birding shoot with several others driving around and looking for snowy owls. Apparently the leader had heard about this owl being in this area and drove by. We saw a crowd of people -- and this was only half of them -- with artillery two blocks away. I thought it was funny -- I didn't know so many people in the Toronto area owned so many long lenses.
Yeah - long and very well camouflaged: I like that guy with rather bright blue jacked and nicely camouflaged lens:LOL:! Anyway, I think you have very nice neighborhood: both birders and photogs!!! Thanks for the photos - both of them!
 
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Important in the last very windy days here.
(Looks front heavy - breast muscles are in front, but when you know how they fold their legs - makes sense!).
Oh! BTW the only crowd was me:). On other hand - it's not a Hawk Owl!!! These doves are just a pests here... Sometimes actually very annoying and eventually loved only by photogs desperate to take ANY photo of (not previously frozen) bird;)!DSC_5201_DxO.jpg
 
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Yeah - long and very well camouflaged: I like that guy with rather bright blue jacked and nicely camouflaged lens:LOL:! Anyway, I think you have very nice neighborhood: both birders and photogs!!! Thanks for the photos - both of them!
It’s lens protection rather than camouflage - to protect against crowds.
 
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I was on a birding shoot with several others driving around and looking for snowy owls. Apparently the leader had heard about this owl being in this area and drove by. We saw a crowd of people -- and this was only half of them -- with artillery two blocks away. I thought it was funny -- I didn't know so many people in the Toronto area owned so many long lenses.

There is a snowy owl in the Colonel Samuel Smith Park at the end of Kipling Ave, Toronto; always on the dock. No crowd! I was one-on-one with it about 100 feet away last Sunday morning.
 
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