Amazing Owl Photo

[lunkerbasshunter]

wow what a cool pic!

[cisco]

The pic Dan submitted from the lady photographer seems legit to me anyway.

Look at the eye pupils in IanD's shots. You can see that in low-light conditions the pupils are more dilated (enlarged) than in well-lit conditions. If you look at DanC's pic, the eye on the left has a tad more shading evident and the pupil is a teeney bit larger due to this compared to the right side. Any taxidermist who could get fake eyes and account for this tiny difference would be a real magician to me anyways.Taxidermy requires fake glass eyes to replicate average conditions. To even buy eyes like that is probably an impossibility.

 

Had a disagreement once with a Great Grey over a dead spruce hen... but that's another story... which did involve a canoe paddle..... ... oh nevermnd....