Hi, All!
We've had a pair of Snowy Owls on/off Montrose Beach in Chicago all week. We can get a couple per winter -- or none -- but never so early. There have been terrific photos in the ebird checklists every day
https://ebird.org/checklist/S285652302Some kind of disassembled-looking owls in a couple of those shots, but anyone who's spent time around birds knows that they periodically take themselves apart for inspection/maintenance (often in the shower). Some of those threat poses were apparently in response to one of our local Peregrines dive-bombing them:
https://ebird.org/checklist/S285659065
