Photo by Madalene Murphy |
Friends of ours had seen (and
photographed) one back in Pennsylvania, and we were frankly a bit jealous. We
stopped and asked the man along the road what he was looking at; he gestured
toward a white spot in the distance and offered to let us look through his
scope at the Snowy Owl. As we looked, he noted that this was the purest white
one he had seen. While we looked and talked, cars began to arrive and disgorged
people with tripods and cameras with lenses as big as their arms.
When we left
there must have been ten cars parked along this stretch of the road with people
looking at and photographing the distant Snowy Owl, who was serenely combing
the ground for rodents. The next day that we came, a Snowy Owl on a lump of
snow quite close to the road also attracted a seeing frenzy. The
group photographing the owl was the subject of the front-page picture on today’s
paper: "Snowy Owl Draws Crowd." Who was the big news?
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