Friday the last day in February my wife and I were on 150 traveling North towards Fayette way before the Maynard and Arlington turn I spotted this Snowy Owl right off the highway cool ! I have been looking for a chance of spotting a Snowy but to no avail. There was one spotted last year in this general area , I read they will return to their wintering grounds the next year. This one, with all the barring I believe is a first year Owl so it could not be the one spotted last year. This bird has traveled a long way to be here from the Artic.
As they age they loose the gray brown barring. Also like most Raptors the male Snowy is smaller then the female and with less markings and more white. Snowy's are the heaviest of the owls. To my surprise their were two almost all white Owls with this one, the way they were hanging together I wondered if this could be a family, Or were they on there way North and just found each other, they are very protective of there wintering and hunting grounds though, I don't know.
These birds are big and have a big wing span. They like large open and secluded areas. Cool.....
