Hollow Greeting

Photograph by Karthik Vilwanathan , National Geographic Your Shot

An owl peers from a tree hollow in Northumberland, United Kingdom. After unlucky weather derailed a trip to see puffins on the Farne Islands, Your Shot member Karthik Vilwanathan drove with a friend around a nearby woodland area, hoping to see birds of prey. This time we were lucky, he writes. I saw this little owl pop its head out a few times from the tree, so I waited patiently, and 20 minutes later I captured this image.

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