First, let me congratulate you on a GREAT FIND! While my pictures are NOT from a 'bigger and better' camera, I offer them for size perspective. I took these two pictures with a digital 'point-and-shoot' Canon A570 IS camera from the car window in 2006 near Reno, NV while on a business trip (never leave home without your camera!). The bird is perched on a metal fence post that supports barbed wire to give you some size perspective. http://picasaweb.google.com/mvalencic/BurrowingOwlNevada2006 Matt Valencic Chagrin Falls, OH -----Original Message----- From: Ohio birds [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Robb Clifford Sent: Tuesday, June 24, 2008 11:20 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: [Ohio-birds] Pics of Darke Co. Burrowing Owl Below is a link to some photos I got of the Burrowing Owl spotted in Darke County this afternoon (June 24, 2008). Again, there was a delay in a post of this importance as we needed to speak with the land owners prior to making it public. The photos aren't 'great' but they do the job. I'd love to see some photos from people out there with a "bigger & better" camera! http://www.flickr.com/photos/25666543@N02/with/2609685264/ ^these are the photos I was able to snap today^ Happy Birding! -- Robb Clifford - Naturalist - Darke County Parks www.darkecountyparks.org "We need another and a wiser, and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken a form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth." -Outermost House by Henry Beston- ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]