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| Silver Island Mountains Utah -
Novermber 2006 -click on an image for a larger view (javascript must be enabled on your browser)- |
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| It's Thanksgiving weekend and I'm looking to get away for a little while. Nothing too far away, but with some room to roam. The Silver Island Mountains fills the bill nicely. | ||
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After arriving, and
driving around quite a bit, I find a suitable place to camp. The Silver
Island
mountains are a wilderness study area and although there is a
maintained
road around the perimeter, almost all of the roads that head into the
mountains are marked as of f limits.
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I take off for a quick hike to
the ridge line before the sun sets. I get back about 20 minutes after
sunset and proceed to set up my tripod to take some twilight shots.
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As I
set up my camera and
take a couple of photos, a huge owl appears and swoops by very close to
my head a few times. It freaked me out enought that I
got
inside my vehicle until it left. When I resumed my picture
taking
the same thing happens again.
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| The next time there are two owls. This sequence of owls swooping near me in the fading light had me retreating to my vehicle three more times. I finally fiqured out that the timer on my camera emitted high pitched beeps which increased in time intervals until the shutter opens. The owls must have thought that these were the death shriek of a rabbit or something. Anyway, it was pretty cool. | ||
