A month and a half ago, I posted my first pictures of the season of a Northern Pygmy Owl, and expressed the hope to see this winter visitor to the valleys again before the season was over. Indeed I did see it, but always from a distance that didn’t favour satisfactory images.
Today, towards the end of the season, I watched a Pygmy Owl hunting along the lakeshore. It would perch and watch from one spot. If it found nothing, it would fly maybe 30 metres along the shore and look again.
When spotted, this Pygmy Owl was hunting beside the Harrop Ferry landing.
It soon shifted to the other side of the landing, hunted for few minutes, and then moved on again.
I suspect that I won’t see one many more times this winter.
How simply yet wonderfully and beautifully this owl lives in its environment! Thank you, Alistair, for showing us this mystery of life so near us yet often missed. Fr. Jim
A Pygmy Owl is supposed to have been frequenting the Lakeview\McHardy area in Rosemont recently. It was seen on the ground with its claws through the throat of a starling. Too bad you weren’t there, Alistair.