Snowy Owl

I fall so far behind with posting photos - and most of the photos I want/need to post never see the light of day, believe it or not, seeing as I have still posted so many photos on Flickr, lol. Didn't have to dig too far into my archives for this one, though, taken E of the city on 28 February 2013. Couldn't get those beautiful yellow eyes, but I did get a tall, wooden pole instead of the more usual insulator of an electricity pole. And no, I wasn't standing two feet away from it - you have to love zoom! A Snowy Owl was seen in the last few days, but most (if not all by now) will have left and migrated north, so we have many months to wait before we see these magnificent birds of prey again. They were here in Alberta in great numbers this year, but maybe next year there will be far fewer of them. All depends on the Leming population up north.