Photographic proof of a small gremlin….
…or perhaps merely a screech owl sitting on a sign in a neighbor’s yard.
You can’t see the little bird vibrating, but it was producing its distinctive whirring trill — that was how we found it.
Western Screech Owl in front of an Ocotillo, Scottsdale, AZ. (Photo A.Shock, April 2014)
It was newly dark, and well beyond the camera’s ability to shoot anything like a real photo, especially without a tripod. But dinking around with the pathetic pixels in photo-editing software produced surprising detail and a painterly, almost pastel-like quality in this image of a small owl and its background, an enormous blooming ocotillo lit from below by landscaping lights.