As you know I’ve been out and Snowy Owls have been located…as I’m always thinking of things to come my thoughts turn to Great Gray Owls.
Will the season be a good one…who knows.
Remembering back last year on a day that started out sunny and bright and then turned dark and cloudy with snow…whatever the conditions the owls are still around and one makes the best of it.
Finding this owl on a low perch while the snow began to fall was one of the rewards for the day.
Well the clicker finger has been getting itchy with the anticipation of returning Great White Owls from the North. One day short of a year to the date of last year’s first spotting of a Snowy Owl seemed like a day that might relieve the itch.
So going with that gut feeling and positive thoughts I headed Out-n-About to check areas that have produced in the past.
The time passed and the eyes sore from staining to see an owl…then finally a White Beacon on a pole.
Not a Big Fan of pole perched owls but hey…take what Mother Nature provides.
Back in mid July the Alarm Bells went off…we had a Peregrine chick down. Our contact from the Hydro Plant in Selkirk alerted us that one of the chicks was on the ground…so off we went.
After some time searching the chick was located , scooped up and off to the rehabbers to be checked. After being given a clean bill of health and banded we returned to Selkirk.
The folks at Hydro have become very accommodating willing to help the Peregrine Project in any manner possible.
The chick looking somewhat bewildered and unsure as to what had taken place over the past 24 hrs soon found the ledge of the building. Then proceeded to do what chicks do when ready to fledge…Wingersize or flap, flap.