The photograph above of the snowy owl in flight was taken late in the morning on February 11th.  This flight followed a long wait after some good early action.  The wait started with a feather cleaning session on an entrance gate which was interrupted by the approach of this truck which prompted the bird to fly to a more isolated spot.

When the vehicle drew too close for the owl’s liking, she launched and flew along the fence line towards the sun.

She didn’t go too far – landing on a post roughly 100 metres away.

We were separated from the owl by a fence line of our own which ran parallel to hers and they were about 80 metres apart.  That distance was just fine for me and with a 500mm lens made the subject a reasonable size in the frame.  From where I was, the sun angle and the background were both…

Another Twitter rant, lovingly preserved for your delectation.  This one was inspired by partisans taking exception to my being disgusted when other partisans compared a tyrannical, pro-police-state politician to women fighting for rights under Islamic theocracies on the grounds that said politician has a vagina.  The rant seemed to confuse a lot of doofuses who don’t follow me, but must have seen it in retweets; the idea that the behavior of cops and politicians might be rooted in psychosexual drives was apparently so deeply disturbing to them that many of them felt compelled to hurl insults at me, most of which can be paraphrased as “lol girls are dumb”.  But without further ado:

NEW POLICY: Defend a politician in a reply to me, be instantly muted without appeal.  Politicians are all sociopaths who want to control others non-consensually.  I don’t give a fuck what party they belong to or how much…