Chancing upon an owl in flight
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This article was published 01/03/2022 (1287 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Brandon Sun photographer Tim Smith chanced upon a great grey owl that was spending its afternoon hunting in the deep snow along Highway 10 near Onanole on Monday.
The Audubon Field Guide to North American birds describes the great grey owl as “a big nightbird, haunting woods of the far north and certain high mountains of the west.
“Its great size is partly illusion: it has very thick fluffy plumage, and its body size is smaller than it would appear, so it preys mostly on tiny rodents.
“When there is a population crash of voles and other rodents in the boreal forest, numbers of Great Gray Owls may drift into the northeast, causing excitement for birders.”
The great grey owl hunts either day or night, locates its prey by sound, and can plunge into snow to catch rodents more than a foot below the surface.
