We had no plans today, so I wasn’t even dressed yet, when I opened up my laptop to see what blog postings were up. Mike’s subject title caught my eye, so I checked it out. With a little investigation I realized that he was referring to an area I was pretty familiar with. My sister lives just down the road from this snowy owl sighting!
When I mentioned it to George, it was a go. He is always on the lookout for owls, and this sounded like a good possibility.
Fortunately, it was a really nice day for a drive, and I pointed that out several times on the way up, in case the owl was not to be found.
As we neared the field,we noticed the hay bales in the field to the left ahead of us, and a car pulled over on the shoulder to the right.
We slowed down to see what they might be focused on, and there, out along a snowy ridge, sat our snowy owl, a first for me. A couple of weeks ago we missed seeing one on the way home from Buffalo, so we were delighted that this one stuck around long enough for us to come by.
We watched it for about fifteen minutes before it flew further back in the field.
My photos don’t do it justice, so check out Mike’s photos and account here.