Christmas Owl!

Year 9

This week saw us experience a HUGE blizzard up here in the Northland. Depending upon your elevation and downwind location from Lake Superior, snow totals were from 20 to 30 inches of snow. Weather conditions were finally supposed to moderate early this morning with calm winds. Given raptors are not able to effectively hunt during a blizzard, I thought that Great Gray Owls would be hungry after over two days of not eating.

Jackpot! I watched this Great Gray hunt for over 75 minutes well after sunrise this morning. More images will be coming from my time with “gray”, but for now … Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays.

Bald Eagle Food Fight!

Year 9
Food Fight! After two days of a Blizzard up here in the Northland, the raptors are hungry. Only the “top eagle” gets to eat first! The winds are supposed to die down by tomorrow morning. Thus, assuming back roads are plowed, I will be out before sunrise. There should be lots of action from hunters who have had to fast for the past 48+ hours. This sequence of photographs were taken this afternoon, and cover less than 2 seconds in real time.

Can’t we just be friends?

Download Snowy w/o Charge!

Year 9

The second edition of Snowy’s Search for Color is at the printer. The end result is you may now download the second edition PDF at no charge. Unfortunately printed copies of Snowy will not be available till mid January.

I always give away PDF full versions of my children’s owl picture books. Thus, here are the two pages from which to get a free copy of Hoot or Snowy for the Holidays and view “online extras” about Snowy and Great Horned Owls.

Now it’s time to hunker down. Up to two feet of snow are expected in the next 48 hours as a winter storm bears down on the Northland.

As a fyi … compared to the first edition, the second edition has two additional pages, one totally reworked page, and further optimized images. In addition, the online extras page on this site for Snowy Owls was created.