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May 14, 2025

And Then There Were … None?

Well, we may finally have reached the end of the 2024-25 snowy owl season, less than two weeks before Memorial Day in the U.S. The last two owls we were still in contact with, Toronto and Rimouski, both failed to…

Hochelaga

Otter

Rimouski

Toronto

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May 8, 2025

One Goes, One Stays

Here in northern New England, spring has arrived in a rush, with new leaves on the hardwoods and a rush of lately returned migrant songbirds — red-eyed vireos, great crested flycatchers and rose-breasted grosbeaks just this morning in the woods…

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April 26, 2025

And Then There Were Two

Apologies for the long silence — I’ve been out of town the past eight days, serving as guest ornithologist at the Lodge at Little St. Simons Island in Georgia, always a delight but something that doesn’t leave a lot of…

Carden

Jolene

Otter

Rimouski

Salvail

Toronto

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March 31, 2025

One More on the Team

I promised one more surprise, here at the very end of the season, and her name is Toronto. She’s a four-year-old female snowy owl who is back in the wild after an mishap with a high-rise building, and a helping…

Carden

Jolene

Rimouski

Salvail

Toronto

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March 27, 2025

Scattering With the Season

And just like that, spring has sprung. Last week’s milder weather seems to have triggered a bit of a mass exodus. After showing very little of the pre-migratory restlessness we sometimes see in late winter, and for the most part…

Atwood

Carden

Jolene

Loren.

Newton

Otter

Rimouski

Salvail

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March 8, 2025

One More on the Roster: Salvail

What will likely be the last new SNOWstorm owl of the winter season is watching the world go by from an airport — though fortunately not the biggest, busiest airport she could have chosen. Salvail, as we’ve nicknamed her, is…

Atwood

Carden

Jolene

Loren.

Newton

Rimouski

Salvail