Snowy owls, beautiful white raptors with bright yellow eyes and feathered legs and feet, have arrived on the RI coast in considerable numbers this winter. I will not bore you with the details of why they’re here, but I did write a rather long feature on this, which you can read here if you are so inclined.
We went owling recently and found not one but two!
This one was resting on a post. The hatch year birds are heavily marked with brown.
When we drove back out, we saw a cluster of cars and people standing around, looking up. That could only mean one thing: another snowy!
This one was perched high on a roof. It was hard to get a decent shot of it. Still awesome, though, that they’ve come all the way down from the Canadian Arctic, and that we have a chance to see them here.
All photos were taken from a considerable distance. These birds are exhausted and often starving, so we have to give them lots of space and not flush them from their perches.
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How exciting! You live in such an interesting place, dn.
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It can be. There’s often something interesting going on on the coast. The owls are unusually cool, though.
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That is exciting! I’ve only seen owls in zoos, so this is an incredible experience!
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Seeing an animal or bird in the wild is always a treat for me, because I have to be at the right place at the right time and be sufficiently aware to spot them.I got very lucky this time!
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I hope those beautiful birds are on their way down to Georgia where it’s *only* in the 20s.
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If one could make it to Bermuda, I’m sure they could get to Georgia. It sounds positively tropical right about now.
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