One-eyed beauty

I was on my own most of the time that I was in the Owl aviary at the Calgary Zoo the other day. This Snowy Owl has only one eye and so would not have survived if she (?) had been left in the wild. After she ate a dead chick, she moved over towards me and sat there maybe 5' away. Always such a thrill to be that close to an owl : ) The light was fading at the end of the afternoon, though the sunlight just caught her back.