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Title: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Lord G on 22-Feb-10, 10:21:43 PM Dawn and I took a trip north of the border to look for winter owls last week. We weren't disappointed. I've posted an extensive write-up of our long weekend over at Peregrinations. Read about it and check out dozens of pictures here (http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2010/02/six-owl-weekend-up-north.html).
http://marchlords.com/birdblog/2010/02/six-owl-weekend-up-north.html Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: MAK on 22-Feb-10, 10:47:26 PM :wave: Awesome pictures as usual. :clap:
Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: jeanne on 22-Feb-10, 11:00:39 PM wonderful pictures! I so loved barred owls but each of them was really beautiful to see!
Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: dale on 23-Feb-10, 01:14:38 AM Just smashing, Jim!! I can't imagine. This is incredible!
I go owl-watching and see nothing. I always suspect they play poker on my car roof in my absence, and swoop off just in time. Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Patti from Kentucky on 23-Feb-10, 01:27:21 AM Excellent adventure, Lord Jim (though I'm unbelievably envious). Thanks for sharing the story and photos.
Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: valhalla on 23-Feb-10, 06:44:07 AM Now THAT is a WOW Weekend! Thank you so much for sharing - snowies and kestrels - a great way to start my day :happy:
Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Donna on 23-Feb-10, 06:59:42 AM (http://s18.rimg.info/88d491b445964b91b145a27c8cbd6027.gif) (http://smiles.int-world.com/smile.153436.html)(http://s18.rimg.info/90d3f57ed11abe0bcfeff2ec7d663bf3.gif) (http://smiles.int-world.com/smile.153374.html)
Well Owl be....what a great weekend Jim. Amazing pics. Have you gone back in search of the Snowy at the Pier lately? Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Dot_Forrester on 23-Feb-10, 07:42:48 AM :thanx: What an exciting report, with such gorgeous photos! I've been to some of those places on winter birding trips so it was really fun reading.
Dot in PA Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Lord G on 23-Feb-10, 10:36:19 AM Well Owl be....what a great weekend Jim. Amazing pics. Have you gone back in search of the Snowy at the Pier lately? I've been monitoring a local birding email list for possible sightings but so far I haven't heard of any Snowys around Rochester or at the pier. Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Donna on 23-Feb-10, 10:51:47 AM Well Owl be....what a great weekend Jim. Amazing pics. Have you gone back in search of the Snowy at the Pier lately? I've been monitoring a local birding email list for possible sightings but so far I haven't heard of any Snowys around Rochester or at the pier. Too bad, I remember all the great pics of that Snowy.....was a good year. Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Wing Goose on 23-Feb-10, 04:29:27 PM Jim and Dawn,
What gorgeous pictures. I loved them all. I really enjoyed the ones of the broken ice looking like broken glass. The two Canada geese and ice, the owls (so wonderful), the foxes, and the ice. Was it cold - - - of course! dumb ? on my part. Lola :congrats: :coolphotos: Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Lord G on 26-Mar-10, 12:17:44 AM Jim and Dawn, What gorgeous pictures. I loved them all. I really enjoyed the ones of the broken ice looking like broken glass. The two Canada geese and ice, the owls (so wonderful), the foxes, and the ice. Was it cold - - - of course! dumb ? on my part. Lola :congrats: :coolphotos: Thanks. Yes, it was frigid on the first day with temps that barely got out of the single digits Fahrenheit, and well below zero in Centigrade degrees. The other two days were a bit warmer, but February is our coldest month... Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Lord G on 26-Mar-10, 12:19:35 AM :thanx: What an exciting report, with such gorgeous photos! I've been to some of those places on winter birding trips so it was really fun reading. Dot in PA Thanks Dot. We'll definitely be going back. It was a fantastic trip. We had people in our group from as far away as Virginia and Florida, so you needn't be local to take a Lakeshore Nature Tour. Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Lord G on 26-Mar-10, 12:22:08 AM Quote from: Donna link=topic=1405.msg8807#msg8807 date=1266940307z Too bad, I remember all the great pics of that Snowy.....was a good year. My first Snowy pictures were in 2004, when we had that Snowy on the Charlotte and Sumerville piers that hung around for a week or so. But my best shots were the ones I got in December 2008 (http://birdblog.marchlords.com/2008/12/out-of-town-visitors-relax-in-rochester.html). Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Lord G on 26-Mar-10, 12:24:53 AM Just smashing, Jim!! I can't imagine. This is incredible! I go owl-watching and see nothing. I always suspect they play poker on my car roof in my absence, and swoop off just in time. :hysterical: There's a lot of hit and miss with owls, it seems. For some reason, they don't like to just sit out in the open so we can admire them. 8) Title: Re: New at Peregrinations: Owling in Canada Post by: Lord G on 26-Mar-10, 12:26:00 AM Now THAT is a WOW Weekend! Thank you so much for sharing - snowies and kestrels - a great way to start my day :happy: Yep, "wow" was something we said more than once on the trip. |