A nice flying shot of a Hawk Owl. Most photos I see of them, there just hanging out on a porch, so this is a fun shot to have come across.
Photo by Mike Cohen
Along our way from Fairbanks to Deadhorse Alaska we stayed a couple of nights at Wiseman, a nice halfway point, south of the Brooks Mountain Range in a boreal forest near the Yukon River. We were lucky and spotted a Northern Hawk Owl in a typical perch for this species, adorning the top of a spruce tree near the road. Hawk Owls are very tolerant and this one did not mind us running up and down the road as it changed from one perch to another. It looked beautiful when positioned before the green of the forest. Here it is in a dive, presumably for prey, but which did not end in a meal this time.
