Barred Owl

Not too bright on my part - bush-wacking with my recently fixed 500mm f4 one week before a major road trip.
The lens is workable thankfully, but only with a teleconverter on, just bought a new 1.4x to replace this one that took the brunt of the impact when tripod fell over, again. sigh..
will bring my lens to Nikon again for service after the trip, should be an easy fix this time.

Barred Owl.
This is the bird i was going after when the camera fell.
Went back to the spot the next day in the pouring rain to test the camera and lens out, had to make sure everything was fine, which it all seems to be.
Also wanted to reclaim my "mojo", yesterday was a terrible day as far as things mechanical and electronic went, today was much better.