So to be 100% honest, the one shot of the mother owl tearing the crow apart was taken the previous day... it just made the story too long to explain all that. Come to think of it, that one shot was also made with my small camera - Olympus em-5 mkii.

The other shots including the heron and the pigeon were captured on the same day and I have dozens and dozens more. The owls don't move around a lot during the day, so if I get a clean line of sight I can basically shoot until the card fills up, or the big lens breaks my shoulder!

Here is the mom with the two baby girls. (So say the owl ladies... I have no idea how they can identify the sex of the birds.)