http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/12/23/surprise-we-hunt-at-sea/ A Bird Blog with Kate St. John Thu, 23 May 2013 16:03:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/12/23/surprise-we-hunt-at-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-5891 David Stasenko Thu, 01 Jan 2009 15:16:16 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=1926#comment-5891 Hi Kate. The “barn owl” that Barbara had seen here, in Albany, back in November was most likely to have been a snowy owl. The local paper (Albany Times Union) had a piece yesterday (31Dec08) about area sitings since November. They spoke of an irruption of snowy owls this year, but I don’t know if that is a consensus phenomenon. I hope that get a look while it is (they are?) still around.

]]> http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/12/23/surprise-we-hunt-at-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-5869 Libby Strizzi Tue, 30 Dec 2008 13:17:10 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=1926#comment-5869 A friend from Massachusetts writes, “Snowy owls have been fairly regular winter visitors on Duxbury Beach (Massachusetts) for
decades. Eiders are extremely common in Duxbury Bay which may explain why they go
there (for the takeout?).”

]]> http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/2008/12/23/surprise-we-hunt-at-sea/comment-page-1/#comment-5751 BB Wed, 24 Dec 2008 01:14:15 +0000 http://www.wqed.org/birdblog/?p=1926#comment-5751 Great post on the Snowies. Thank you for passing along the link to the wonderful photos of Kim Steininger, a real treat.

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