{"id":750,"date":"2014-02-06T17:44:08","date_gmt":"2014-02-06T17:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/?p=750"},"modified":"2016-10-14T16:17:07","modified_gmt":"2016-10-14T16:17:07","slug":"750","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/en\/750\/","title":{"rendered":"Have You Spotted A Snowy Owl This Winter?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Capture.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-751\" alt=\"Capture\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Capture-535x640.jpg\" width=\"535\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Capture-535x640.jpg 535w, https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Capture.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 535px) 100vw, 535px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>[PHOTO CREDIT: ANDRE DENIS, <a href=\"http:\/\/cwf-fcf.org\/en\/discover-wildlife\/photography\/?src=hp\">CWF PHOTO CONTEST<\/a>]<\/p>\n<p>About 7 years ago I was so lucky to see a snowy owl on my drive to work one morning &#8211; definitely an amazingly beautiful bird! Lately I have been reading so many reports of snowy owls, one even saying that <a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/content\/ebird\/news\/gotsnowies2013\/\">&#8220;this year&#8217;s invasion is one of the most dramatic natural history spectacles in the Northeast&#8230;&#8221;,<\/a> that every day I look in the fields with the hopes of seeing another one. But so far, not a single sighting. Last week on my way home I saw people outside of their cars on the side of the road with cameras and I started to get excited thinking maybe they were looking at a snowy owl &#8211; and they may have been but I sure couldn&#8217;t spot one.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/content\/ebird\/news\/gotsnowies2013\/\">Most sightings are coming from the Atlantic provinces, the Northeast U.S., the Great Lakes, with even one on Bermuda!<\/a> It seems that the reason for this event has to do with a very successful breeding season thanks to abundant prey. With so many young owls, some are being forced south.<\/p>\n<p>So for now I&#8217;ll continue to scour the fields looking at fence posts with the hopes of seeing a snowy owl and if I do I&#8217;ll remember not to get too close but instead admire it from a distance.<\/p>\n<p>Have you been lucky enough to see a snowy owl this winter?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"post-excerpt\">[PHOTO CREDIT: ANDRE DENIS, CWF PHOTO CONTEST] About 7 years ago I was so lucky to see a snowy owl on my drive to work one morning &#8211; definitely an&hellip;<\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[633],"tags":[276],"class_list":["post-750","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-canadian-wildlife","tag-snowy-owl"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=750"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2800,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/750\/revisions\/2800"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=750"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=750"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.cwf-fcf.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=750"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}