Sunday, March 11, 2012

Snowy Owls - March 10


Snowy owls migrate south from their arctic habitat in average only every four years (this is called an ‘irruptive migration’). They do this when the lemming population, their main food source, crashes. This year many owls came south, and some of them landed at Boundary Bay near Vancouver. Hope they found enough food to fill their tummies.

Here are some pictures from my visit with the owls.