I'm afraid you have owls...
Posted on 02/06/2012 7:31:30 AM PST by C19fan
These are the snowy owls attracting quite a crowd of onlookers across America as an ‘unbelievable’ mass migration continues to grow. Bird enthusiasts are reporting rising numbers of the Arctic birds winging into the lower 48 states this winter in a mass southern migration. Some states as far south as Texas are reporting sightings of the bird that is as white as the driven snow.
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About 4 years ago I was walking the grounds of a rustic resort with my (at the time) girlfriend. A Snowy landed on a roof near us.
Damned thing was the largest bird I’d ever seen that close up.
I haven’t seen any snowy owls but the great horned own numbers sure seem to be on the rise.
Owl say!
My son got some good pics of a snowy owl in CO. a few months ago.
I’ll see if I can find them and post.
Lol!!
That pic reminds me of Trump...
Must be too cold up north for these birds to handle. Must be a sign of another ice age approaching.
There are lots of ponds in the area and they like hanging around those ponds. I suppose that the fishing is good there. I have already heard stories about people killing Canadian geese because they are depleting local fishing. I don't like hearing that, but I do understand the problem.
Even though it's been remakably mild in these parts (VA) this winter it's been very, very cold in Northern Canada and Alaska. It's also been colder than usual and very snowy all over Europe. We've lucked out becaus the Artic oscillation and the ATantic oscillation are working to keep the jet stream to our north while farther east it's dipping quite low.
My wife and I wwwere at the Back Bay wildlife3 refuge a couple of weeks ago and there was a huge, huge flock of Artic swans on back bay...they come evry year but this was the biggest gathering I'd seen in years, and a woman who was taking pictures, said she was a biologist but what do I know, said that the migrations were bigger because of the incredible cold up north.
I was walking the dog last night and heard an owl hooting. I thought I was going nuts and hearing things. Maybe not.
Don’t know if it’s related at all, but on February 2nd I saw a robin. We don’t usually see robins around here until Sometime in March!
“I have already heard stories about people killing Canadian geese because they are depleting local fishing”
I don’t think geese eat fish, do they?
They eat minnows sometimes, deplete fishing? I doubt it.
OK, I just usually see them eating grass.
When it snows 6 inches in the Sahara you know it is cold.
Amazingly, the Sahara Desert, which had no snow for 33 years until a brief fall in western Algeria last month, faces an inch of snow by the weekend.
Meteogroup forecaster Stephen Davenport, who said parts of north Africa face six inches of powder, said: “The deep cold is spreading surprisingly far south.
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