This Snowy owl is in the East Gwillimbury area of Southern Ontario.

This is the earliest fall/winter season Snowy Owl sighting for me.

Cooking Lake, Alberta.

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Sleepy Snowy.

Sometimes that blob of white I see way out in a stubble field actually is a Snowy Owl. I have been fooled by snow covered rocks and white plastic bags caught on weeds.

We aren't seeing many around here so far.

Strathcona County, Alberta. (TWP 540 east of HWY 21 for locals)

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It is reverse migration here now, with the Snowy Owls heading north.

Nice to catch one on a natural perch. Special thanks to Glenn

and Keith for keeping me company over the past two days.

Parkland County, Alberta.

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White male in the last hour of sunlight.

Ontario, Canada

This is the same Snowy Owl I posted on February 26. In this view, we can see a few brown freckles and lines.

The light was very harsh, and almost directly on him, hence the squint.

Strathcona County, Alberta.

My first Snowy of the 2020/21 season with wings in an angel pose. It was scared by a truck and ts in the process of taking off.

Sharp-eyed Keith Huang spotted this beautiful male out in a field while he, Peter Stahl and I were cruising around the Beaverhills Lake area today. It was far off, but Keith generously offered me the use his 500 mm f/4 to get a closer shot. Thanks Keith :)

Beaver County, Alberta.

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This is probably one of the last group of Snowy Owls that I will shoot in the 2021/22 winter season. Extremely strong north winds two days ago apparently forced down in my area return migrants in unexpectedly large numbers. I had seen only a trickle of stopovers in the area in my prior recent outings to look for hares.

First Snowy of the 21/22 winter season

Beaver County, Alberta.

A last half-hour-of-sunlight casual friend. We saw eye-to-eye on everything during our brief relationship!

Railroadin'

First of the season on a typical power pole perch (power lines edited out).

Strathcona County, Alberta.

I am posting a real Snowy Owl today. Thanks for your kind comments on my male Snowy Owl carving posted just before this. Much appreciated.

Strathcona County, Alberta.

I thought I would look back over my 2020 un-posted shots and post my personal favorite. I didn't process this one back then because the upper wing tips were just barely inside of the original frame and there was no pleasing composition.

I opened it up and increased the canvass size of the original file which gave me room to add the blue sky pixels beside and above above those wing tips.

Snowy Owl

Many thanks to all those who View, Comment and or Fave My Photos... It is greatly appreciated... Roy

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It was great to find her on a fairly low perch on a skinny branch rather than on the top of a power pole. This female is much more heavily barred than the female I posted a few days ago.

Strathcona County, Alberta.

This sign was located along a railroad trackbed.

A sunny, cloudless but cold day here. This beauty was fluffed up against - 17 C and a brisk wind.

Strathcona County, Alberta.

Montée Sainte-Julie, Sainte-Marthe, Québec