Burrowing Owls

Great Horned owls in flight and posing

Northern hawk owls photographed in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada.

Images of snowy owls. Photographed at Boundary Bay, British Columbia and Calgary, Alberta, Canada. My first encounter with a snowy owl was on the tundra above the Arctic Circle in Alaska while in search of polar bears. I fell in love with these beautiful owls and hoped to someday be able to get a closer, sharper, higher quality photograph than the one I shot that day. Subsequently, I traveled to South Dakota, where 30 were reported at Lake Andes. No luck. Traveled to Vancouver several times, where 20 were reported, but did not get THE shot. I made numerous trips to the fields near Denver International Airport for a reported snowy owl. I never found it. It could be considered an obsession. Finally, on a trip to Calgary, Canada where the snowy owls are known to gather, I captured the photograph that I thought that I would never get. A male snowy owl (all white), flying toward the camera at sunset. My obsession has been cured.