GHO Mother with Squirrel

t's festinating watching the owl family after sunset as they become very active. Both owlets were high in the trees and mom and dad flew into near by trees calling to them and the chicks were answering. The younger chick few about 40 feet from one tree to another flapping rapidly and desperately just making the second tree where it had a hard time sinking it's talons into the tree to avoid falling. Mom was carrying a squirrel and seemed to be luring the younger ones to follow her further into the woods. This photo of mom was taken about 30 minutes after sunset on a cloudy evening with the light of the city reflecting off the clouds making for very strange colors. I stayed another hour after taking this photo watching as photography was no longer possible as it was very windy so I could not do longer exposures than this 40 second one.

X-H2S NIKON AF-S NIKKOR 500mm f/5.6E PF ED VR lens 500mm f/5.6 1/40s 10000 ISO +2.3 EV

Comments and suggestions welcome,

Morris

The shot is good but really looks like it was taken in bright day light. I'm not savvy with pp but would think bringing down the whites could probably help?
Must be a great experience watching them. Have never seen one in the wild myself.
TFS
K.

Thank you Kohinoor. It's a slippery slope with night photos like this and particularly with a cloudy sky. When I present a photo darker people complain about it being dark which is of cause the reality.

Morris