This morning I explored a new area, and I found this Great Gray Owl. This sequence of images shows its successful hunt. Given the dark conditions I was not able to get many flight shots, but it was fun to watch.

First found … thankfully atop a pine (easily viewable)

Intense Concentration … vole underneath the snow

Strike! (Great Gray Owls hunt using their ears to hear mice and voles running underneath the snow)

Breakfast (in the cropped close-up you are able to see the vole’s tail)

Typical Flight Show (away from me with a busy background)

Hunting anew … well camouflaged