23 January 2025
Those that ventured out on this week’s bitter chilly hoped to see birds from the far north who had simply arrived on the wind. The everyday solution to discover them is to drive previous frozen fields awaiting motion and scanning for something that appears like a hen.
What’s that white lump within the subject? Is it a snowy owl? Or a plastic bag?
Eleven years in the past the winter of 2013-2014 was extraordinarily chilly and there was a enormous irruption of snowy owls within the Northeast and Nice Lakes. Individuals photographed all of them, even the distant ones, to doc them in eBird.
At prime: Is {that a} plastic bag on that patch of snow? Under: Are there plastic baggage or snowy owls on this photograph? And what number of?
Is there a snowy owl on this image?
Reply: All three images have a snowy owls in them. The center photograph has 3 alongside the ridge prime.
This winter we have now not seen a giant inflow of snowy owls into Pennsylvania although there have been a few sightings.
Lately there’s a snowy owl close to Grantsville, Maryland which is commonly photographed from afar. A white lump?
When you’ve ever appeared for a snowy owl and located a plastic bag you’ll benefit from the story and images at The Seek for Snowy Owls by Buddies of the Fox River in Elgin, Illinois.
