Snowy Invasion Minus the Snow
Lots of talk about snowy owls making an appearance all over this winter. It’s a good thing too, because with the lack of snow in Vermont I could really use something special to spruce up the muddy landscape for the Christmas Bird Count.
I can remember seeing snowy owls on Cape Cod before I was a birder and how exciting it was. Post-bird nerd transformation, I truly flipped out for an owl that visited the Mad River Valley in 2006. This was back when I was doing my Beaks Radio Show, broadcasting out of an old schoolhouse on the backroads in Warren for WMRW. The owl actually showed up in an apple tree right there at the station. It had found the community garden’s compost pile and was casually picking off small rodents finding food in the pile. Mesmerizing and ghostlike it was quite the treat that season.
So…with the CBC just around the corner many of us have our fingers crossed for even a moment with a snowy owl. Make sure to check out fellow Vermont birder Bryan Pfeiffer’s detailed post complete with eBird maps on sightings in Vermont and beyond.
