Bird Watching: Birds in winter scenes, 1 by Grasmussen

Grasmussen wrote:
Burn, the following quote from todays AKBird group shows just how amazing the Owls are this season.

Quoting: To: akbiirding@yahoogroups.com
Sent: 1/29/2012 12:30:10 P.M. Alaskan Standard Time
Subj: 5 species of owls

Nils Warnach, Louann Feldman and I had five species of owls this morning.
Hawk-along Lake Hood Drive
Great Gray-in the recycling center west of the Clitheroe Center
Saw-whet and Boreal along the fence line that parallels the Eat-west
Runway. Park outside the Clitheroe Center and walk north (should read south) through the heavy
equiptment storage area and turn right (west) along the fence line. They owls
were fairly obvious sitting in cottonwoods on the right as you walk towards
the Coastal Trail.
Short-eared-flopping over the runway.

Dave Sonneborn
Anchorage

There were a dozen cars & trucks at the end of the road, in front of the Clitheroe Center. So many people have been walking along the out side of the airport fence that there is a well pack trail through the deep snow. This is looking east back along the airport fence. The people in the picture are photographing a Boreal Owl in a tree next to the path.