As part of the Water Wise Workshops a few weeks ago, Sally Farrow from Mass Audubon enthralled the kids with some animals that live in the watershed. One of them was a beautiful Barred Owl. Owls, to me, are simply beautiful birds and it was great to be able to capture some pretty nice video of this bird up close and personal.
The video is simply some b-roll of the owl as Sally talked about it to the kids (you can hear her talking in the background). We had great light that day and I thought the footage came out pretty well.
(I have to say, the compressed version you see here from Vimeo does not do justice to the original. If you really like this try the HD version on the Vimeo site or, better yet, download the full file from Vimeo — heck, even that has some compression artifacts in the feather details. Tough subject.)
