This adorable forehead belongs to a Boreal Owl, also known as Tengmalm’s Owl.

Description from All About Birds

In the dark of the night, the small Boreal Owl comes alive in the spruce and fir forests of northern North America and Europe. This bright-eyed, square faced owl sits and waits on a perch for small mammals and birds before gliding down talons first to grab it. From late winter through spring, its quick, hollow hooting sounds across the dark forest as the male calls for a mate. They spend the year in boreal forests, occasionally making their way farther south in years of prey scarcity.

      • xor@sh.itjust.works
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        10 months ago

        yeah, duh, everyone has that effect on their camera

        in this case, in was unnecessarily added in

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          10 months ago

          Unless it was completely faked, the photographer likely has no choice for this. Lowering the aperture to get a wider depth of field wou reduce the amount of light significantly to either introduce motion blur (if not on a tripod) or significant noise. Also, this sort of angle on a telephoto lens would be very difficult to not blur out

          Unless it is faked in, it’s difficult to tell though