This weekend is The Great Backyard Bird Count - another entertaining but rather mis-named birding event in that one's counts aren't limited at all to 'the backyard'. (Note: the photo of the robin on the GBBC link above was taken my friend Nick Saunders, Saskatoon, SK).
Yesterday it was cold and snowy so I stayed home to watch and record the progression of bird species around my yard. Today I decided to go for a drive around my usual country birding route. That didn't produce as much as I hoped. I was really wanting to find some owls - specifically Snowy and Great Horned.
I dipped on the GHOWs but finally found this Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus, an adult female, I think, some 50-60 kms away along #18 Hwy near the farm where I grew up. Always fun to drive around the old stomping grounds.
Harry Potter's owl, Hedwig, was a Snowy Owl
The Snowy Owl is the provincial bird of Quebec.
Yesterday it was cold and snowy so I stayed home to watch and record the progression of bird species around my yard. Today I decided to go for a drive around my usual country birding route. That didn't produce as much as I hoped. I was really wanting to find some owls - specifically Snowy and Great Horned.
I dipped on the GHOWs but finally found this Snowy Owl Bubo scandiacus, an adult female, I think, some 50-60 kms away along #18 Hwy near the farm where I grew up. Always fun to drive around the old stomping grounds.
Harry Potter's owl, Hedwig, was a Snowy Owl
The Snowy Owl is the provincial bird of Quebec.
Beautiful bird.
Lovely! I miss seeing Snowys!
ReplyDeleteI think these are my favourite owls - I tend to say that about every owl I find, but I really do think the Snowy is It.
ReplyDeleteGorgeous! I would love to see a Snowy that close.
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