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Photography => Ontario Birds => Topic started by: mr.sharp-photo on December 26, 2015, 06:22:41 PM

Title: all-white snowy owl
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on December 26, 2015, 06:22:41 PM
you could spot it from literally 1 km away. it looked like a shiny piece of scrap metal.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5646/23363521434_ab98aa0501.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/BAy9X5)snowy owl (all white) (https://flic.kr/p/BAy9X5) by Richard Sigesmund (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/), on Flickr

(https://farm2.staticflickr.com/1628/23965654306_e7bfa092d0.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/CvLf5j)snowy owl (all white) (https://flic.kr/p/CvLf5j) by Richard Sigesmund (https://www.flickr.com/photos/mrsharp-photo/), on Flickr
Title: Re: all-white snowy owl
Post by: Rob'in'To on December 30, 2015, 10:31:11 AM
Beauty man!  I've not seen nearly as many in my usual travels compared to the last couple winters.  I may have to get out of my "zone"!
Title: Re: all-white snowy owl
Post by: Brian Bailey on December 30, 2015, 06:16:06 PM
We don't see many pure white males down here in southern Ontario. I saw predictions that this would be a big invasion year, based on the number of early reports, but it doesn't appear to have turned out that way. I haven't been out much, but I know there have been two different birds seen at Colonel Samuel Smith Park this season, but neither one is reliable.


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Title: Re: all-white snowy owl
Post by: mr.sharp-photo on December 30, 2015, 09:43:45 PM
Quote from: "Brian Bailey"
We don't see many pure white males down here in southern Ontario. I saw predictions that this would be a big invasion year, based on the number of early reports, but it doesn't appear to have turned out that way. I haven't been out much, but I know there have been two different birds seen at Colonel Samuel Smith Park this season, but neither one is reliable.


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kind of surprised. i assumed that SS would need to wait until there was ice