There has been a veritable flurry of blog posts about snowy owl sightings among the nature bloggers lately. Recently in a comment on this blog and in a post on his own, Dave of
Bird TLC has talked about an irruption of snowy owls in southern Alaska (see his post
here, and follow-up
here). Here's
a story from Birdchick blog about a snowy at the Minneapolis/St Paul Airport--thanks to
Dave for the heads up.) In the recent edition of
I and the Bird (at
Search and Serendipity) I found this story from
Bird Brained stories!:
Dreams of boreal species, about, you guessed it, a snowy owl sighting, illustrated with some wonderful photos. Cindy at
Woodsong joined in with
A Special Place & A Special Owl. Mike of
Mike's Birding and Digiscoping Blog has a whole series of snowy posts:
Snowy Owls,
Even More Snowy Owls, and
Snowy Owl Dies from Gunshot Wound. And there may be more--if you know of any, please let me know.
A few days ago I received a report of five snowy owls observed in Casselman--just a couple hundred kilometres to the northeast of Thomasburg, and I've heard of sightings in southwestern Ontario. Ontario sightings seem to be cutting a swath just above Thomasburg, swooping from Ottawa (northeast of me) down to the southwest of the province.
I've never seen a snowy owl. I know they prefer a flat vista, I guess because it reminds them of their breeding grounds on the arctic tundra, and the landscape here rolls a little, but I found a pretty good spot in the fields.
The PerchI thought maybe if I published a couple of photos here, a snowy might get to hear about it and drop by to try it out.
The View
2 comments:
Hope they have internet connections.
looks like a dandy perch and field for a snowy.. they're hard to spot with alot of snowcover- and when I search for them in the thumb area, every white plastic bag looks like a snowy- so naturally I check them all out ;)
your snowy will share itself with you..when it's time. I learned a long time ago that if I go out in the field with NO expectations, I'm always rewarded- this screen looks scrunched up so I hope this posts ok!
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