Cool owl strike imprint

I found this on fb
Looks like a mouse for midnight snack!

That is really awesome.

Very rare
Congratulations

How’d it fly off with no tracks in the snow?

I see a couple of those a year. Very neat.

Wow!

The hole I figure is made in the snow grabbing the mouse, then I think it hit the snow with the wings, launching itself up in the air

I believe it's fake.

I got to agree.
Looks to perfect.

mine isn't quite so clean , a couple Sunday's ago I went snow shoeing and this was on the frozen over canal

Snow looks harder on your picture

I was snow shoeing down a frozen canal and it was freeze thaw but from the under side -6 while I was walking on it and hadn't been above zero is a few days it was easy walking in the snow shoes on the canal I hardly sunk in at all , I also didn't go too far out to the middle it does have a current

. I like these kind of pictures. Wing prints in the snow

I never realized an owl could sense a mouse under the snow like that.

He used his wings.

Here's a couple from my place. I believe the OP pic could be real, photoshop editing can do amazing things.

Yes, I do also. May not be as detailed as that one but yes if snow and conditions are right you find them here also.

cool pictures

Looks to me it push off from the snow in one try

K Snow's pic of this is real.

SJA, that's a completely unedited photo from my phone, in late afternoon overcast light. It was a female cardinal kill. The imprint was very clean. With a little editing, it could be made to pop like the OP picture. Snow type also plays a huge factor. Wet, fluffy, hard, dry all makes for very different impressions.

Highly doubt that editing would make the OP's pic look real. There's too much missing in his pic. Many people "see" something, but don't observe :-)

I think that the op is totally legit if you look closely you can see where the wings pulled back in when it pushed off.

I think they hear them, like a fox does

Nope. Observe the differences between the two pics. Tell me what you see and don't see in both of them.

So, all bird's of pray move and react the same way?
You are way off base on this one

I don't know how or why any one would bother to Make a fake picture, snow doesn't lie

Very nice pictures.

Wanna see some Bigfoot pics in the snow? . . . they're on FB so they must be real :-)

Ya'll can suit yourselves on the Owl pics.

I like to put voices to members posts.
When I read your post
I hear your avatar speaking.
Just sayin

Guess some birds don’t have tail feathers and can sweep up in the same exact spot it swooped down without brushing any snow.
The second pic looks more realistic to me than the first.