A good friend and I spent a whole day in 15 degree weather trying to find Raptors. After hiking for miles and getting some so-so shots of Great Horned Owls and a Barn Owl, this Short-eared humored us with about 20 minutes of photo cooperation about 10 yds. off the road. The owl was on this fence post in an elevated position above the road which made for a terrible background of overcast evening sky, but I had to try...