A photographer covertly taking pictures of a group of owls thought he'd managed to avoid their detection - until one of the chicks turned its head upside down and spotted the movement of the camera.
Spotted: The young owl twists its neck to look at a photographer in the distance (Picture: Solent)
The curious one-year-old bird was snapped by Henrik Nilsson near Moses Lake in Washington in the United States.
Nilsson said: 'I had used my car as a hide and the owls could only see the movement of my lens.
'After a while, I would be ignored and the birds carried on with their various activities.'
But it seems the young owl - one of nine chicks - was more intrigued than its peers.
Since owls have eyes that are fixed, they rely on drastic neck movements to observe predators, sometimes twisting their head up to 270 degrees.
Nilsson spent a number of hours in his car watching the birds - and soon discovered they had much more dangerous observers to worry about.
'When a threat would appear, like a hawk flying above, the owls would rush into the burrow,' he explained.
'After a few minutes one would peek its head back out, followed by another and then another.'
Read more: http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/891972-curious-owl-contorts-neck-to-peer-at-prowling-photographer#ixzz1o3dxeq6L
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