“What and where?” I quickly responded as the folks on the walk looked incredulously at the expression on my face.
“I will meet you at the Ingles in Mills River in 45 minutes.”
“The bird walk is over,” I told the group with a grin on my face, “and we are heading to Brevard to see the owl. Who’s coming?”
This was our monthly Beaver Lake Bird Walk in North Asheville, where about 20 folks turned out for our regular first Saturday of the month December walk. It’s never a really exciting time of the year, as all of our summer birds have long gone, and it’s only during inclement weather when Beaver Lake attracts a small selection of transient waterfowl. We were happy watching the regular gang of tufted titmice and golden-crowned kinglets when the phone call came in.
Snowy owls are large white owls that breed in the Arctic tundra regions with a circumpolar distribution. In North America they nest from Alaska to Northern Labrador and winter south of this range still far to the north of the Carolinas. Periodically they undergo an irruptive migration well to the south of their normal wintering range. In 2011 they staged a major push into
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