These short-eared owl images were taken on January 10, 2009 (the date under the images from the camera is wrong saying 2000)at Salisbury Beach State Park in MA. He was flying over the marsh by the parking lot and landing on posts and boardwalk railings. The first year (dark) snowy owl was in the dunes on January 19 and the crossbills were in the campground flying from pine tree to pine tree on the same day. These are just a few of the many images I came home with. All images were taken with the Canon 40D and the Canon 100-400 IS lens. The merlin images were taken on February 21, 28 and March 4 and the snowy owls February 28 and March 7.