Owls on SJ Island this Week
Posted November 10, 2015 at 5:50 am by Tim Dustrude
A Snowy Owl – photo courtesy of pe-ha45 at Flickr.com
It’s been a big owl week on SJI – a Burrowing Owl was seen at American Camp and this weekend there was a Snowy in the San Juan Valley.
The Burrowing was most likely a bird in migration (good info about them via our libraries and the database “Birds of North America”) and has not been seen since.
The Snowy (possibly similar to photo at right – Ed.) is the first report for Washington State. It was seen at night on the road in the valley. This bird might stay around. Check beaches with lots of driftwood, fields, fenceposts and even sitting on roofs near the fields. The Snowy will not be all white but have lots of black spots on it and these are the young of the year.
There has been a big invasion in the mid-west this year and maybe we will get more on the west coast. Let us know if you see one and better yet try to get a photo.
Cheers,
Barbara Jensen, President
San Juan Islands Audubon
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