Snowy Owl.

1-23-12 SHORT HILLS: Here’s more for the birds. The NYT has a story this morning about Snowy Owls moving south. It’s not another global warming story, but about hungry birds hunting for food. They usually live in the circumpolar, arctic regions eating lemmings, among other small animals, but the lemming population has crashed, as it periodically does. The birds have been seen as far south as Kansas and even Hawaii and across the US from Oregon to Boston. This type of occasional migration is known as an irruption.

Here in NJ, we had snow a few days ago, but it’s warmer today, and the snow is turning into fog. Rain is forecast for later.

Here's a link to the NYT article to the right:


Snowy Owl, from the NYT-1/23/12, looks like Hedwig.