Dear spring, please come as soon as you can.
VERY cold this morning. Despite the cold we ventured out to take a last stab at finding a snowy owl. They will be heading back to antarctica very soon so our window of opportunity is closing. Guess what? We saw 4!!!! No good pictures because it was VERY windy—even a tripod couldn’t hold the camera steady and they were very far away—but this blurry picture is proof positive so I’ll post it anyway. We were able to sit in our car in one place and see all four owls at the same time, sitting on the ground in frozen corn fields. They were very far away but unmistakable.
This afternoon we took a walk at Fish Camp County Park which is on Lake Kegonsa. There was some open water and we saw Goldeneye, Common Mergansers and of course Canada Geese. We also saw our FOY (first of the year) Great Blue Heron and Fox Sparrow.
Hold on everyone, spring is coming but she sure is taking her time.
Here it is, our first snowy owl EVER.
Fox Sparrow. They’ll eventually move on to their summer nesting grounds in far northern Canada so we only get to see them for a limited time.
The Sandhill Cranes are back too. I took this a couple days ago at Lake Kegonsa State Park.
