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Burrowing Owl

Athene cunicularia

Description:

Burrowing Owl

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23 Comments

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 10 years ago

Superb !!

Jason Alexander
Jason Alexander 10 years ago

Cool!

Wilsons
Wilsons 11 years ago

The burrow owl! Thanks to the band the Dead Milkmen my generation all knew about the burrow owl! :) adorable!

Sumukha Javagal
Sumukha Javagal 11 years ago

Awesome..!

Manaswini
Manaswini 12 years ago

The USP is the eyes..

Sachin Zaveri
Sachin Zaveri 12 years ago

Wow, fantastic capture,,

EmilyMarino
EmilyMarino 12 years ago

Great Pictures! I love birds of prey, big and small!

KarenL
KarenL 12 years ago

Incredible eyes!

alexmdevoy
alexmdevoy 12 years ago

wow! that has such bright eyes! why is it humans have dull eyes, and birds have such bright eyes! Some birs eyes are red, an this ones eyes are yellow!

FianaShapiro
FianaShapiro 12 years ago

way cool! I so wish I'd seen one when I was working down in that area.

Wild Things
Wild Things 12 years ago

very penetrating eyes

Eve Dosh
Eve Dosh 12 years ago

Stunning pics. :)

LauraLee
LauraLee 12 years ago

Thank you HeatherMiller and Meik. The second is my favorite too, in fact I use it as my wall paper on my computer.

Meik
Meik 12 years ago

Yeah I love the second one, too!

HeatherMiller
HeatherMiller 12 years ago

Second picture is definitely the coolest shot I've seen today.

ErinLucy
ErinLucy 12 years ago

It doesn't even look real :O

LauraLee
LauraLee 12 years ago

Thank you all.

Hema  Shah
Hema Shah 12 years ago

I agree completely!!

ReannaDee
ReannaDee 12 years ago

I love this! Those eyes peering over are amazing!

LauraLee
LauraLee 12 years ago

Thank you!

Elsa
Elsa 12 years ago

That second picture is fantastic!

Ashish Nimkar
Ashish Nimkar 12 years ago

See those eyes..very adorable..

LauraLee
LauraLee 12 years ago

I always thought the caption should read "What Big Eyes You Have"

LauraLee
Spotted by
LauraLee

California, USA

Spotted on Jan 15, 2011
Submitted on Jun 3, 2011

Spotted for Mission

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