O Captain! My Captain!

A great horned owl looks out from atop a large boulder while another, barely visible, peeks out from its nest in McDowell Sonoran Preserve in Scottsdale, Arizona on March 26, 2023. Original: _RAC4370.ARW

A great horned owl steers its ship between the edges of day and night, the sun starting to fade on a warm spring evening as I hiked my way out of the park. Though I rarely hike with it I had my biggest telephoto with me that day so when I looked out across the desert and saw a strange bump atop a boulder I was able to throw the camera on the tripod for a closer look. I won’t tell you how many days I looked at this shot on my computer before I realized there were two owls in the picture. In my defense the second owl wasn’t visible when I started the sequence of shots.

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