Kelley Luikey was with a gaggle of photographers when one thing surprising occurred. An incredible grey owl that the group was observing landed on one of many photographer’s cameras—in reality, it was Tyler Grudowski’s digicam. Luikey captured the second utilizing her personal digicam, and she or he posted the sequence of pictures on Fb.
“A departure from my regular publish, this one has a human in it!” Luikey wrote in her Fb publish. “It was a lot enjoyable to look at this scene unfold as all of us stood there in full disbelief. I’ll ceaselessly be jealous of @tcgnaturephotography however this Nice Grey couldn’t have picked a nicer human’s digicam to land on for a short second. Yay Tyler!!!”
The publish blew up on-line, and, inevitably, Luikey ended up fielding some hate feedback suggesting the group was baiting the owl to entice it to come back nearer. Luikey up to date her unique publish to set the file straight.
“I don’t condone baiting owls in any means form or kind. Interval,” Luikey wrote in her up to date publish. “[I’ve] by no means have been part of something like that and by no means will. That was completely not occurring on this present day or any day I used to be there. [. . .] It was an thrilling and really temporary encounter that was filled with pleasure. The owl landed for perhaps 3 seconds earlier than it flew off and resumed looking. This habits was not noticed on subsequent days.”
See an owl land on a photographer’s digicam right here: