Waiting for the dark

I didn't expect to find one of these! It was actually getting pretty dark when I took this. It was too dark for autofocus to work (and nearly too dark to have a good reference point for manual focus), so I feel lucky that I got an image with enough light, reasonably in focus, and without motion blur on the owl's constantly moving head. If I could do it again, I would definitely do some things differently, but I guess you live and you learn.