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.
unnecessary blur on that there picture…
yeah, duh, everyone has that effect on their camera
in this case, in was unnecessarily added in
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
