Snowy Owl — SNOW
The first time I saw a Snowy Owl was on December 7th, 2013 at Forsythe. I was driving a colleague to Philadelphia Airport. We stopped at Forsythe in the hope of seeing the pair of Snowy Owls I’d heard had been reported there. And indeed, we saw both of them. Less than a month later on the first day of 2014, another Snowy Owl showed up, this one on a roof in Allenhurst.
It was Valentine’s Day in 2018 before I again saw a member of this species, again at Forsythe, and just recently on February 6th, 2021, another stopped on a local roof, this time in Belmar.
Snowy Owl — SNOW
The first time I saw a Snowy Owl was on December 7th, 2013 at Forsythe. I was driving a colleague to Philadelphia Airport. We stopped at Forsythe in the hope of seeing the pair of Snowy Owls I’d heard had been reported there. And indeed, we saw both of them. Less than a month later on the first day of 2014, another Snowy Owl showed up, this one on a roof in Allenhurst.
It was Valentine’s Day in 2018 before I again saw a member of this species, again at Forsythe, and just recently on February 6th, 2021, another stopped on a local roof, this time in Belmar.
Lightbox Gallery of American Pipit photographs.
My first impression was I was seeing an oversized sparrow or perhaps some kind of thrush.
Only when I examined the photographs at hom did I realize that this was an American Pipit.
The bird held its ground resulting in a number of similar photographs as I moved closer.
This was one of my last shots. Shortly after this, the bird flew off to the northwest.
Pentax K-1 with 150–450 mm lens augmented by the 1.4x teleconverter, f/11 at 1/2000th second, iso 10,000. Post-processed using Adobe Lightroom.
This page last updated Feb 19, 2021.