Marty’s photo of the day #4403: Most people love owls without really thinking about why they do so. One of the reasons for that is because owls have faces that express emotions much like human faces do.
I photographed this long-eared owl many years ago, while spending a day in northern Montana catching and banding owls. I have a whole series of owl photos from that day, which express a wide range of emotions. This one is “I’m really pissed at you now. Leave me alone, or I will come back and bite off your balls while you sleep.”