Normally, the cutoff for tagging new owls for Project SNOWstorm is early to mid-March, since we’re primarily interested in winter movement data, and by late March, many snowies are already starting to head north. Once they get out of southern…

After a false start last week, when she did a there-and-back-again loop away from her winter territory, Perth started what looks like serious migration north late last week. March 20 she left the area around West Monkton, ON, flying east…

The official first day of spring doesn’t come until Friday, March 20 (at 10:46 a.m., to be precise), but some of our snowy owls are already feeling its tug as the days lengthen and the sun climbs higher in the…

Perseverance pays off, and the sterling example this winter has been our Ontario colleagues, Charlotte England and Malcolm Wilson, who have spent weeks trekking all around the southwest of the province trying to trap adult snowy owls to deploy transmitters.…

We have a new transmittered owl, and the very surprising return of our oldest veteran, back south for the first time in years. The newbie first. Fulgence is a second-year (first-winter) male snowy owl, rescued from an industrial waste pool…

As those of you who live in the northeastern U.S. or eastern Canada already know, it’s been an exceptionally cold and very snowy winter in this part of North America. Here in New Hampshire we experienced the coldest December on…