I spent the morning trying to relocate the snowy owl off of 147th and Armstrong
in Ramsey that I saw on Sunday. After forty five minutes of looking around the
cell tower and areas adjacent to that I drove east across Armstrong and near a
mall where there is a Gym and pizza place. On the corner of Sunwood Drive and
Zeolite street sat the Snowy preening himself on a light pole next to the
street sign and sitting comfortably in the sun. I stayed with him for over an
hour then he flew south and sat in the snow overlooking highway 10 then ten
minutes later he flew back to a pole right across the street from where I first
saw him. I took many photos. Was trying to get a shot of him flying and just
as he took off my cell phone rang and it was enough to distract me from a good
shot. This was the first time he flew so after he returned to the other pole I
watched him another ten to fifteen minutes then I took off. As I was turning
left onto Armstrong I saw some birders that were watching the Cell tower so I
drove over and told them about the snowy on the pole and they followed me back
to it. We were watching it for a few minutes then a young woman saw us and
asked me how long the bird had been there and I said well over an hour maybe
two and she said that she had just seen one atop of the cell tower almost a
mile away. So maybe we have two Snowy’s. I drove back there again and it wasn’t
there but I suppose it is possible that there are two. I uploaded three new
photos at http://www.flickr.com/photos/ronsthoughts/
Ron Taube Coon Rapids
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