Chris Charlton Photography

Wildlife Photographer | Birds and Beyond | Canon EOS R5 Mark 2 Shooter | Medina County Ohio Based - Follow for more cinematic nature photos!

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Struttin through the heavy snow day.
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🗺 - Medina County Ohio
📷 - Canon EOS R5 MK II | Canon 200-800
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Barred owlet makes a big move to it's first new tree after getting encouraged by Mom.

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Eastern Whippoorwill - This is the bird I was most excited to find and wanted to see the most on my visit to Magee Marsh. I think they're super cool.

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Night Hawk - Magee Marsh - Lifer, and one of the 2 birds I wanted to see the most on this trek, was super cool to see it. This was the first bird I spotted there thanks to other folks pointing it out.

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Scarlet Tanager - Magee Marsh - Lifer
This bird is a show-stopper in front of a bunch of photographers.

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Mrs. Barred Owl taking a break from her duties. Couldn't have found a better perch.

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Beaver at Brunswick Lake
Medina county Ohio
Late April 2026

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This Isn't the Vine For Me
What if barred owls didn't have tail feathers?
This one has them, but at least shows us how goofy they can look without them :D

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VIP Parking
Barred owls will sit in busy vine areas to keep the pesky blue jays from bombing and mobbing on top of the camoflauge it offers.

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"Stick 'em with the pointy end"
I wouldn't want to be on the business side of those talons - whatever she got it was pretty stylish. Special thanks to the photobombing log.

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Silent Flight
Barred owl swooping through the woods, they'll fly right past you and you'd never notice.

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Good stretch.
Freeze frame from one of my videos - The sky was blown out so I took some artistic liberty with making this look a little cooler.

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My first adult bald eagle photo! 🦅 | 📆 February 2026
🗺 — Medina Count Ohio. Private property.
📸 — Canon EOS R5 Mark 2 | Canon RF 200-800mm

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The Hunter’s Reward
Barred Owls feed each other as part of their pair bonding — they mate for life. With this shrew’s fate sealed as a gift for his mate, I watched him deliver the prize straight to her.
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🗺 — Medina County Park District
📸 — Canon EOS R5 Mk. 2 | Canon RF 200-800mm

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The Hunter’s Prize
Their asymmetrical ears create a living 3D sound map, working in perfect sync with exceptional night vision. Even in pitch black, this shrew’s fate was sealed the moment the owl locked on.
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🗺 — Medina County Park District
📸 — Canon EOS R5 Mk. 2 | Canon RF 200-800mm

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I found this barred owl on a tree shaped like half of a "Y". He took the unoccupied line and made himself look like a nub sticking off the tree. If he wasn't pointed out by someone else for me I'd never have found him (this time) :P

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One of my favorite subjects in dappled light — Barred owl. 🦉
Full frame + cropped version to compare.
Click for best view — Especially the cropped version!
🗺 — Medina County Ohio 04/26/26
📸 — Canon EOS R5 Mark 2 | Canon RF 200-800mm

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The setting sun crushed it on this one 🌄
🦉 - Barred Owl evening light.
🗺 - Medina County Ohio.

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Brown-headed cowbird (male). The females lay eggs in other birds nests usually damaging or removing one egg to replace, the babies incubate and fledge faster than most other birds. Female cowbirds will monitor nests they have parasitized. If their eggs are removed, they may destroy the host's eggs.

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Barred owl after sundown - Sky still had some light as you can see.
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📆 - 04/23/2026
🗺 - Medina County Ohio
📷 - Canon EOS R5 MK II | Canon RF 200-800

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Lone blue jay harassing a barred owl. In larger numbers blue jays will start pecking the owls head. In spite of the racket this blue jay made no friends came so he took off. Barred owls are opportunistic hunters. Blue jays are on the menu, so they harass the larger bird to get it to relocate to protect their territory/nests. I couldn't pick which one I liked the position of the jay in more so here's all.
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📆 - 04/18/2026
🗺 - Medina County Ohio
📷 - Canon EOS R5 MK II | Canon RF 200-800