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No Owls This Morning: December 2021

I received this note: There is a Snowy Owl back on docks of Col Sam Smith Park. Only have cell phone so white blob!

In other winters I have had good luck finding a few owls at Col. Sam:

Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl
Snowy Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl
Saw-whet Owl
Northern Saw-whet Owl

So it was with eagerness that I drove out to the park.

Beaver handiwork

Sigh! No success. I did find some birds:

Mallards
Northern Cardinal (male)
Bufflehead (male)
House Finch (male) and Northern Cardinal (male)
Mallard (male)
House Finch (male)
Bufflehead (male)
House Sparrows
Bufflehead (male)
House Sparrows
Buffleheads
Buffleheads (female)
Mallard (female)
Bufflehead (female)
Canada Goose
Gadwall

NATURE POETRY

Life is mostly froth and bubble;
Two things stand like stone:
Kindness in another’s trouble,
Courage in your own.                   – Adam Lindsay Gordon (1833–70)

Miles Hearn

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