Searching for snowy.

You may have heard that this winter there were an unusual number of snowy owls in New Jersey.  So we decided to go to Brigantine (Edwin B. Forsythe) National Wildlife Sanctuary to search for the snowy owl.

This was the first bird we saw, definitely not an owl, but a red-tailed hawk.

A snowy owl, sitting on the water's edge, best seen through a spotting scope.

There's Atlantic City over the water.

Owl number two looked like a big white ball thrown into the grass.

The snow geese were pretty far away.

Not all the pintails had muddy bottoms.

There are always Canada geese.

A shot of Philly on the way home.  It was a successful day.