Bird-watchers and photographers on the lookout for the snowy owl. Mark Rightmire/The Orange County Register.
Closing out 2022 with a story that all in our bird-centric community will enjoy:
Neighbors have come to notice a pattern with the bird, which seems to take off in the evenings before reappearing sometime later. Mark Rightmire/The Orange County Register
'Extremely Rare' Snowy Owl Sighting Transfixes a California Suburb
What brought the owl to the city of Cypress, in Orange County, remains a mystery.
The forbidding frozen wilderness of the high Arctic tundra is the natural home of the snowy owl, a great predator perfectly adapted to hunting its primary food source, lemmings.
But sometime over the last few weeks, one snowy owl in particular made a surprise appearance in noticeably less harsh terrain — the shingled roofs and white chimneys of suburban Southern California. Read more of this post
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