All images: unionbaywatch.blogspot.com
Will last winter’s Snowy Owl irruption repeat again this year? Looks likely given all the snowy owl reports this week here & here, and expert chatter here. Union Bay Watch has posted a primer on the Snowy Owl and some great photos. While they’ve been spotted around Portage Bay, there has yet to be a sighting on Union Bay according to UBW — the 520 eagles may have something to do with that.
Read more here, and if you haven’t read the follow-up story to the Snowy-Owl-eating-a-seagull-dinner sighting on Capitol Hill this week, be sure to do so here. Then get the binocs ready.
Pretty birds.
Neat seeing Snowys in that environment. There is a small colony of snowys that nests near Barrow, Alaska where I worked on my Master’s. I actually got to hold one we trapped for sampling. Anyway, I always love to watch them when they are around. Cheers.
Reblogged this on Wedgwood in Seattle History and commented:
Valarie says: It’s owl season! Our thanks to the Union Bay Watch blog for posting photos of the Snowy Owl as it migrates through Seattle in the fall and winter.