The Barred Owl is a large gray-brown owl with dark eyes, a rounded head, and elongated stripes below, and it is widely distributed in the United States and Canada. The Barred Owl’s rich baritone hooting is a characteristic sound in southern swamps, where members of a pair often call back and forth.
Barred Owl
The Double-toothed Kite gets its name from its most distinctive morphological trait: two tomial “teeth” (not visible here), tooth-like emarginations on the cutting edge of the maxilla (upper mandible). A small hawk of tropical forests, mainly in the lowlands, that overall looks a lot like a loosely built Sharp-shinned Hawk. The eyes are a bold, piercing red or deep red-orange.
Double-toothed Kite
The Eurasian Eagle-owl is one of the world’s largest owl species. Native to Europe and Asia, these impressive birds are recognized by their bright orange eyes, prominent feather tufts, and powerful build. Adults can stand nearly 30 inches tall and have wingspans exceeding six feet. Saw this one at Wing Haven in Charlotte, North Carolina.
Eurasian Eagle
Photographers shoot portraits of people. Something unusual for us: converting images of animals into portraits.
My favorite animal is an elephant. The Eye of the Elephant is “part adventure story, part wildlife tale,” recounting the struggle to save these innocent animals from decimation, a journey to cultivate support around the globe for the protection of elephants
Eye of the Elephant
Well said about elephants ….
Odysseus by Chad Attie
Along with flowers and plants, there were birds in Fullerton Botanical Garden.
The Egyptian Goose is an odd waterfowl species, with an unusual color pattern highlighted by a reddish-brown eye mask, dark collar, and irregular breast patch. Despite its name, this bird is more like a large duck than a typical goose.
Egyptian Goose
Egyptian Goose Sideways
Caves on the Santiago Oaks Trail look almost like eyes above a nose in a face, if using imagination.
Caves Look Like Eyes
Art of nature – if you visualize, you can see a face with two eyes, a nose, and an open mouth in this tree trunk.
Tree Face
American Oystercatchers are boldly patterned shorebirds with red-yellow eyes and a vivid red-orange bill. They survive almost exclusively on shellfish, including clams, oysters, and other saltwater mollusks. The American oystercatcher received its name for its unique ability to open oysters and other small shellfish. Using its knife-like bill, the bird quickly “stabs” the oyster to break open its shell to eat the soft inside.
One here at Sylvan Heights Bird Park in North Carolina.
American Oystercatcher
Horse eyes are among the largest of all land mammals. Only whales, seals, and ostriches have larger eyes. Horses’ large eyes, with large corneas, allow a significant amount of light to enter. Their pupils can dilate to an area three times larger than a cat or dog and six times that of a human.
Horses have a nearly panoramic field of vision due to their eyes being on each side of their head, estimated to be around 350 degrees with only a small blind spot immediately behind them. This means they can see almost all the way around them without moving their heads.
Here is the eye of War Front at Claiborne Farm.
Eye of War Front
We saw a distinctive horse at the barn at Churchill Downs. “Albino” horses are a color type of horse born white and have pink skin, but they are not true biological albinos. They have slim heads, muscular necks, compact bodies, sloping shoulders, muscular croup, and long tails. Their eyes are blue, dark, or light brown rather than pink. Their hooves are often weak, but they have flat, smooth gait.
Albino Horse
Blue Eye of a Horse
An ice cream shop in Belfast, Maine has chairs to enjoy the frozen dessert. The red chair on the left, though apart from others, catches your eye.
A Red Chair for Ice Cream
Another view, at eye level, of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco gives a different perspective.
Mystic Illusion Dahlia has stunning dark foliage that is almost black in color. The bright yellow daisy looking flowers with expressive golden-brown eyes create a stunning contrast of color and texture.
It wasn’t only swans and irises at Swan Lake Iris Gardens, Sumter, SC. Captured this squirrel posing on a tree branch showing off its wide open eyes and bushy tail. Colorful bokeh effect in the background.
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder – rust creates abstract art at Old Car City, White, Georgia
The King Vulture is an uncommon, large, and spectacular bird of lowland tropical forest, mainly in wilder areas and not around human habitation. Most often seen soaring overhead in mid-late morning, often fairly high up; rarely seen perched. Striking adult has a colorful head and neck, piercing white eyes, and mostly white plumage with a black trailing edge to the wings and tail. Here is a captive, perched vulture at Carolina Raptor Center, North Carolina.
King Vulture
Spectacled Owls are unique owls, so named because of the white spectacles around their yellow eyes, highlighting their brown facial disk. The bill is cream colored. A white stripe around the upper throat divides the color of the body, with the chest being dark brown. Here is a female at the Carolina Raptor Center, North Carolina.
Spectacled Owl Female Closeup
The Eurasian eagle-owl’s large, very distinctive, orange eyes provide excellent night vision. This male bird is at the Carolina Raptor Center, North Carolina.
Eyes of a Eurasian Eagle Owl Male
The eyes and horns of these bullocks seem to be intertwined at a rural farm in India
Eyes of the Bullocks
Eye of a mourning dove sitting on a window sill captured through the screen mesh
Eye of the Mourning Dove