Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. You could put one up anytime of the year, but owls look for winter roosting sites and they nest earlier in the year than most ...

Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box. ... The snowy owl, an Arctic white 24-inch tall bird, can be a winter visitor to the Cape, but they don't breed in this area.

The Snowy Owl is a large owl of the typical owl family Strigidae. It is also known in North America as the Arctic Owl or the Great White Owl. This huge yellow-eyed white bird is unmistakable. It ...

Want to have an owl nest in your backyard? It's time to start to thinking about building a nesting box for your backyard. Surprisingly, winter is the best time to put up an owl nesting box.

A male snowy owl keeps watch over the nest from a nearby mound. ... Males bring home the lemmings, and females stack them around the nesting site in caches as large as 10 or 15.

A snowy owl sits along the shore at the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge on Plum Island. ... “January is the prime month for owls because that’s when many of them are nesting and courting.

One of the largest snowy owl irruptions in recent history was the winter of 2017-18, when 280 of the big birds were documented in Wisconsin, according to DNR data.

Researchers say this winter's mass migration of snowy owls from their breeding grounds above the Arctic Circle is serious business. It's a chance to trap and fit some of the visitors with tiny ...

TRAVERSE CITY — Starting soon, people in Northern Michigan might be seeing snowy owls arrive from their nesting grounds in northern Canada and the Arctic Circle. These animals make an incredible ...

Snowy owl joins menagerie of rare birds, ... was spotted nesting in a wildlife area of Wayne County, southwest of Akron. And, an American avocet, usually found in the western United States, ...

A female snowy owl sits on a picnic table in Muskegon in January 2023. Fewer snowy owls are being reported in Michigan this winter than in previous winters.

A snowy owl was sighted Wednesday in the Bay View neighborhood of Milwaukee, but few of the birds have been seen in Wisconsin so far this season.