Hi every one! Can you believe it? I still cannot believe my luck and I was there!!! Again while on my way to work this morning there was someone white and *quite* chunky looking flying across the road. I pulled over, backed up a bit, and admired a stunningly beautiful snowy Owl perched on top of a utility pole. This one was much larger than the first Owl I had seen and was more heavily barred. The barring seemed darker / black. I believe this Owl was a female as her face, nape of the neck and center of the breast were white. From what I was able to research that does describe the female snowy. Maybe this was an immature but I did not find much description of them. Any way ... I am 113% sure this was another Snowy Owl! What a wonderful start to the day! As my luck would have it, I did not have my camera in the car for the past week. Had the camera been there then for sure the Owl would NOT! LOL! So that was a great start to the day. I was 20 minutes late to work but work is just soooo over-rated. LOL! The rest of the day was downhill but who cares? I saw another Snowy Owl! The Owl was about 1 mile south of the earlier sighting on Rt. 83 in N. Ridgeville again. C3D and 2 Snowy sightings this year!

I just registered with the site, even got a password. It's lot letting me use the site map. I don't have dates, but I've been seeing the monarch for at least 2 weeks. I did have monarch eggs early this spring around May. Never saw the adults, but had baby cats. I think these were migrating north. I should be seeing some baby cats soon. I have lots of wasp in my garden, so I will need to bring some into my sunroom and raise them.

Good for you! It's my first winter having one stay with a loose flock of various sparrows here. He's huge comparing to the others:-). And, I too can't get a picture of him. It's cute watching him scratch around in the snow, grab a seed and run under the brush to eat it.

It's different here in that the towhees (western spotted towhees) spend the spring summer and fall up in the higher elevations in the forest areas and the mountain meadows where they nest and raise their young ones. In winter when the cold and snow drive them down into the foothills and valleys. where they spend the winters. only to leave again in spring for the mountains again.