As those of you who live in the northeastern U.S. or eastern Canada already know, it’s been an exceptionally cold and very snowy winter in this part of North America. Here in New Hampshire we experienced the coldest December on record, and the thermometer has only dropped since then. According to Environment Canada, while January featured a brief spell of … Read More
Look Who the Cat (or the Cold) Dragged In
I guess it’s finally gotten cold enough up north to push even an old, experienced snowy owl south. Not long after I’d lamented, in our last update, the fact that only two previously tagged owls — Hochelaga and (we presume) Newton — have come south into cell range this winter, on Tuesday, Jan. 27 Atwood, an adult female that was … Read More
Welcoming Embleme
We have a newly tagged owl on the snowy fields of southern Québec – one with a fitting name. She is Embleme, a first-winter female trapped Jan. 11, 2026, at the Montréal-Trudeau International Airport by Falcon Environment. The good folks at Falcon transported her to Dr. Guy Fitzgérald, an instructor at the University of Montréal and president of Union quebecoise … Read More