The Northern Hawk Owl had been reported being at the same location for the past few weeks about an hour from me, so I plugged it in the gps and set off. And I still just love every second of driving through the mountains. Don't scold me, but I spend a lot of the time trying to capture the beauty them, but I never am satisfied. You all just need to come see them for yourself. To be honest, sometimes when I'm driving I get the Misty Mountain song stuck in my head from the Hobbit, because that's what they look like.
I arrived to the destination to find lots of people with ridiculously expensive camera equipment. Thousands of dollars. They have cameras hooked up to scopes that are the size of dinner plates. Honestly they spent the whole time complaining about the poor lighting where the owl was at rather then talking about how awesome it was!
I on the other hand, did not get a good picture. This is the best I got. But I did enjoy watching him through my binoculars for a bit. I guess I should give some background, it is unusual for a northern hawk owl to be as far south as he is, so it's a rare sighting. It was also my first time seeing one in the wild, so it was a fun thing to check off the list.
And here is a photo from the internet, so you can see how beautiful they are.
Then I decided to get back in the car and keep driving northwest all the way to Burllington, which is on the coast of Lake Champlain. Checkout the star on the map to see where I was :)
Lake Champlain was gorgeous and there is not much more to say. I took a stroll along the water and stretched my legs a bit.
Another driving photo in the mountains....
I stopped at a little town called Montpelier for a gas, and I discovered it was the capital of Vermont. I am very slowly learning about this New England place...
And I was not able to get a good photo of any of it, but I was able to watch the sunset over the mountains on my way home.
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