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<a href="../index.html">I --Apple-Mail-836-86766989 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable How about now? Is there still a snowy owl at Lawrencetown? Thank you, Nancy Nancy Roberts Design Celebrating 22 years of making you look GOOD Dartmouth, NS B2Y 2X6 902 461-9488 On 11-Mar-14, at 10:13 AM, Andrew Horn wrote: > Hi all, > > I=92ll just add that two snowies were still being seen at Lawrencetown = =20 > Beach as late as yesterday, according to eBird reports summarized =20 > here: http://bluehourbirding.blogspot.ca > > Cheers, > Andy Horn > Halifax > > On Mar 11, 2014, at 9:58 AM, Helene Van Doninck = <helene.birdvet@gmail.com=20 > > wrote: > >> Hard to say, only the birds know :) I imagine they will gravitate =20 >> wherever the food is. Im just tickled pink my barbed wire one is =20 >> going to be releaseable. When I first saw the pics and eventually =20 >> the bird I didn't have much hope. Flying like a trooper, just needs =20= >> to replace some damaged feathers before release. >> Helene >> >> Helene Van Doninck DVM >> Cobequid Wildlife Rehabilitation Centre >> >> On Mar 11, 2014 8:49 AM, "Shouty McShoutsalot" = <desolatechair@gmail.com=20 >> > wrote: >> My understanding is that irruption and migration are two very =20 >> different behaviors, and that irruption is a diaspora - the animal =20= >> leaves because it is forced to, with no predefined destination as =20 >> exists in a migration, and thus no instinct to return to it's point =20= >> of origin. >> >> >> On 10 March 2014 14:24, Paul Ruggles <cpruggles@eastlink.ca> wrote: >> Jamie, >> I have been videoing two snowys for over a month at Lawrencetown =20 >> beach. They seem to have moved away in the past 2 weeks. I thought =20= >> they might have begun their migration back to the tundra? Have any =20= >> of you seen any lately? >> Paul. >> >> On 2014-03-10, at 11:30 AM, Shouty McShoutsalot wrote: >> >> > My understanding is that there are surviving overwintered Snowy =20 >> Owls in NS from the irruption of Dec 2013; that these birds are =20 >> not migratory in the normal sense; that an irruption is not a =20 >> predictable, repeatable migratory event; and that, having survived =20= >> a winter that I believe was fatal to a higher than normal =20 >> percentage of our resident bird predators, the surviving Snowys =20 >> have proven adaptive and survival skills in NS. >> > >> > So I'm wondering what becomes of these birds. Will they become =20 >> residents like our other Owl species, perhaps establishing =20 >> territory and reproducing? Will they return from whence they came =20= >> even if they are not possessed of migratory instinct? Or are they =20 >> doomed to wander in exile alone forever? >> > >> > Regards >> > >> > -- >> > Jamie Simpson >> > Hantsport, NS >> >> >> >> >> --=20 >> Jamie Simpson >> Hantsport, NS > --Apple-Mail-836-86766989 Content-Type: text/html; charset=WINDOWS-1252 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable <html><body style=3D"word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; = -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">How about now? 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