Well, our flight to Jamaica was postponed for a day, so of course we went birding. It had been over a month since we had looked for Snowy Owls out by Richmond, so off we went. We started on Rushmore, where we saw a few Snow Buntings. On Akins, we saw a few more, but no snowys. And none on Brownlee either! So we decided to go and look for the Gyrfalcon, but went back by Eagleson and Fallowfield. Suddenly Barbara spotted a Snowy Owl way back in a field north of Fallowfield Rd.
We decided to try for the Gyr from the Deschenes Rapids parking lot. We pulled in a Barbara said it's out on the ice! I got the scope out and saw that it was a Bald Eagle cleaning up the remnants of a Gyr kill. A workman was interested, so Barbara invited him to look through the scope. He was thrilled and told his buddy who had no interest at all. Hey it takes all kinds. Soon The eagle flew off leaving the remains to the crows.
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