Since the sking was still the pits, we called Nancy to go out for Snowys, since we had missed them on the way back from Montreal, and we had just seen three the day before. Nancy was happy to go with us.
We started on Rushmore again, and spotted three Horned Larks on the road - back lit unfortunately.
We carried on down Rushmore and saw the first of several flocks of Snow Buntings. We turned onto Eagleson and saw a car stopped on the shoulder. As we came close, we spotted a male Snowy fly across the road and head down parallel to Akins. We watched in our bins until it was out of sight, then followed down Akins in pursuit. We never did catch up.
We cruised Brownlee, Eagleson, Shea and Garvin without seeing another owl. But we saw lots of Snow Buntings.
We made a stop at Timmy's, then tried Rushmore one last time. Bingo! There was a male on a distant utility pole, which we got in the scope. It looked like the same owl we had seen on Eagleson.
Then I spotted a female on the other side of the road on a low low fence post, which subsequently moved closer onto the ground.
We finished the day with another good flock of Snow Buntings.
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