Re: Snowy owl invasion
[Re: bucksnbears]
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01/01/22 11:58 PM
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I see them every year in MN but this year is crazy. Guessing I've seen 40+ in the past week. The few Hungarian partridge we have are gonna take a whooping!
What town are you near? My wife would love to see one, I've only ever saw one that I remember here in South haven.
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Re: Snowy owl invasion
[Re: bucksnbears]
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01/02/22 01:02 AM
01/02/22 01:02 AM
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Every year we end up with our share of them here in ND too. I have times I will see more than one between the house and town, 6 miles. It seems like there is more than there was 20 years ago.
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Re: Snowy owl invasion
[Re: bucksnbears]
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01/02/22 10:28 AM
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Here in Michigan's thumb, I usually see maybe a half dozen or so. Haven't seen one yet this season, but I haven't been out much. They typically perch on utility poles, barn roofs,or on the ground. I have never seen one in a tree.
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Re: Snowy owl invasion
[Re: bucksnbears]
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01/02/22 12:35 PM
01/02/22 12:35 PM
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Sounds like they may have had a good breeding year--a population explosion:
Irruptive range Large winter irruptions at temperate latitudes are thought to be due to good breeding conditions resulting in more juvenile migrants.[6] These result in irruptions occurring further south than the typical snowy owl range in some years.[95] They have been reported, as well as in all northerly states in the contiguous states,[96] as far south as the Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, nearly all the Gulf Coast of the United States, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Utah, California and even Hawaii.[5][10][97] In January 2009, a snowy owl appeared in Spring Hill, Tennessee, the first reported sighting in the state since 1987.[98] Also notable is the mass southern migration in the winter of 2011/2012, when thousands of snowy owls were spotted in various locations across the United States.[99] This was then followed by an even larger mass southern migration in 2013/2014 with the first snowy owls seen in Florida for decades.[100][101] The nature of irruptions is less well-documented in Eurasia, in part due to the paucity of this owl in the European side, but accidental occurrence, presumably during irruptions, has been described in the Mediterranean area, France, Crimea, the Caspian part of Iran, Kazakhstan, northern Pakistan, northwestern India, Korea and Japan.[5][6][102] Stragglers may too turn up as far south as the Azores and Bermuda.[4]
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Re: Snowy owl invasion
[Re: drasselt]
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01/02/22 02:26 PM
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Sounds like they may have had a good breeding year--a population explosion:
Irruptive range Large winter irruptions at temperate latitudes are thought to be due to good breeding conditions resulting in more juvenile migrants.[6] These result in irruptions occurring further south than the typical snowy owl range in some years.[95] They have been reported, as well as in all northerly states in the contiguous states,[96] as far south as the Georgia, Kentucky, South Carolina, nearly all the Gulf Coast of the United States, Colorado, Nevada, Texas, Utah, California and even Hawaii.[5][10][97] In January 2009, a snowy owl appeared in Spring Hill, Tennessee, the first reported sighting in the state since 1987.[98] Also notable is the mass southern migration in the winter of 2011/2012, when thousands of snowy owls were spotted in various locations across the United States.[99] This was then followed by an even larger mass southern migration in 2013/2014 with the first snowy owls seen in Florida for decades.[100][101] The nature of irruptions is less well-documented in Eurasia, in part due to the paucity of this owl in the European side, but accidental occurrence, presumably during irruptions, has been described in the Mediterranean area, France, Crimea, the Caspian part of Iran, Kazakhstan, northern Pakistan, northwestern India, Korea and Japan.[5][6][102] Stragglers may too turn up as far south as the Azores and Bermuda.[4]
Same years the Marten were on the move.
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Re: Snowy owl invasion
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01/02/22 02:48 PM
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I remember an owl bander who did a little paper search in the HBC records to where they sent those traps that were set to catch owls on poles. Then he sent letters to the managers of some of those post to post a reward for the traps to be turned in. He then paid the postage back to him. Wonder how many of those traps ended up in some personal trap collections in the USA.?
it was a two edge sword his efforts he got traps back but it re-kindled a old tradition in some of the communities Don't know how long ago that was.The guy here that trapped and banded the owls didn't use foot traps on poles.He used live traps,,almost like a miniture turkey net trap.He used live pigeons for bait,,,and actualy waited in a short distance from the trap,,and set it off by hand when an owl went for the pigeon.
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Re: Snowy owl invasion
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01/02/22 05:06 PM
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I remember an owl bander who did a little paper search in the HBC records to where they sent those traps that were set to catch owls on poles. Then he sent letters to the managers of some of those post to post a reward for the traps to be turned in. He then paid the postage back to him. Wonder how many of those traps ended up in some personal trap collections in the USA.?
it was a two edge sword his efforts he got traps back but it re-kindled a old tradition in some of the communities Don't know how long ago that was.The guy here that trapped and banded the owls didn't use foot traps on poles.He used live traps,,almost like a miniture turkey net trap.He used live pigeons for bait,,,and actualy waited in a short distance from the trap,,and set it off by hand when an owl went for the pigeon. There was a trap made especially to go on poles around the turn of the century maybe Cohunt would know. His searches were in the 1960-70 when he worked security for HBC
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