Tiny Balloons

Wintertime close portrait photograph of a Great Horned Owl sleeping, tiny, colored balloon-like droplets of moisture at the tips of hairlike feathers above the owl's nares (nostrils).
Tiny BalloonsIt was a red letter day when I finally located where the village’s Great Horned Owls roosted and nested.Everyone knew about them, but no one knew where the spent their days and reared their young. One frosty late winter morning I made the above photograph of one of the owls sleeping, tiny frosty balloons at the tips of feathers above the nares (nostrils). Chignik Lake, March 12, 2017