SNOWY OWLS

SNOWY OWLS

The Salisbury Daily Times for Sunday, January 7, 2018 had an article

about the Snowy Owl, the Short Eared Owl that are the big attraction

this year, bringing many bird watchers to Fowler Beach Road and the

Prime Hook Refuge.

The Short Eared Owl's had put on a rather good show just about dark

when they usually start hunting for supper. They had started flying about

3:30, allowing watchers an hour or so of day light for good photos.

The owls hunt the meadow voles, a rodent living in the marshes. These

voles had proved an explosion in vole population this year and attracted

more Short Eared Owls

Snowy Owls are rare in Delaware but a heavy breeding season in the

Arctic forced juvenile birds to seek food in other locations than regular

haunts, that being the Delaware Bay shoreline. Sort of trading sand dunes

for snow banks.

The watchers also caught a glimpse of a young bald eagle in the dunes

waiting for the owls to begin the hunt for their supper.

Abstract: By Harrison H, January 7, 2019 for Facebook &

www.delmarhistory.blogspot.com