SNOWY OWL HEDWIG SURVIES MARCH NOR’EASTER RILEY! -By Kim Smith

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Our beautiful Snowy Owl Hedwig survived, and looks none the worse for wear. She spent the afternoon of March 5th resting in a sunny, but wholly unphotogenic location (and extremely windy corridor, too, I might add). Perhaps a New England Nor’easter is nothing to her, when compared to an Arctic tundra storm. She’s clearly a genius 🙂 And has some mighty good survival skills.

Thank you to Betty G. Grizz for sharing her Hedwig sighting this afternoon ❤

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Documentary filmmaker, photographer, landscape designer, author, and illustrator. "Beauty on the Wing: Life Story of the Monarch Butterfly" currently airing on PBS. Current film projects include Piping Plovers, Gloucester's Feast of St. Joseph, and Saint Peter's Fiesta. Visit my websites for more information about film and design projects at kimsmithdesigns.com, monarchbutterflyfilm.com, and pipingploverproject.org. Author/illustrator "Oh Garden of Fresh Possibilities! Notes from a Gloucester Garden."

7 thoughts on “SNOWY OWL HEDWIG SURVIES MARCH NOR’EASTER RILEY! -By Kim Smith”

  1. Thank goodness. I have been worried about Hedwig. Now we need to somehow get a sighting of Mr. Swan! Maybe someone with a drone can help since the road to Niles Pond is now impassable?

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    1. Jenn, he was seen at Henry’s Pond yesterday! Also, I have been meaning to post an update on his leg and will do so in the next few days (where does the time go!) but Lois, one of his long time friends and caretakers reports that Mr. Swan walked towards her as she began to feed him and his gimpy foot wasn’t gimpy at all–he was walking perfectly!!

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    1. Bubo was only here for about a week. Hedwig staked out her territory along the backshore in December. He tried to move in but she would have none of it. After two fights, we did not see Bubo again.

      I don’t know how his eye was injured, but did see the last fight that they had. It was relatively minor, more of an aerial skirmish. They both retreated to different parts of the backshore. He was not seen again in the backshore area after that fight. I think if they had a very serious fight, Hedwig would have shown signs of injury, too.

      Females are larger and more powerful flyers and usually arrive on the scene before males to stake out territory. Snowy Owls will kill other owls and each other over territory.

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