Backyard and Beyond: Bye, bye winter

Anyone who sees a great gray owl will never forget this large, almost ghostly bird that inhabits the boreal forest and far northern bogs.
It doesn’t happen often, but some of these owls visit our region in some winters, and this past winter the owls “irrupted,” allowing many to view their daytime hunts.

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