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
Not a Lot to Report
Apologies for the lack of an update for the past week or so. That was partly due to holiday and family travel, but also because it’s been, well, pretty slow. Thus far we have just one tagged owl that’s sending us data, Hochelaga, who has been moving back and forth across the St. Lawrence River near Montréal since he surprised … Read More
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 check in last evening, May 13, suggesting they may both be outside cell range as they go north. Toronto managed … Read More
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 time for other things. Spring is definitely upon us, and in the past two weeks all but two of our … Read More
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 hand from her namesake city’s largest wildlife rehabilitation group. On March 13, 2025, the owl suffered some minor injuries when … Read More