Here are some great articles about why this is going on. In a nutshell: Snowies eat lemmings. Too few lemmings drives them south in search of food, as does competition if there are too many.
http://mag.audubon.org/articles/birds/notes-snowy-owl-invasion
http://ebird.org/content/ebird/news/gotsnowies2013/
http://muskegonbirdblog.blogspot.com/
- lots of recent sightings over there. Lots of other great birds too!
We're headed to Bellevue this weekend for Sandhill Crane Counts. Meeting outside Natural Resources at 1:30 pm. and we'll be back around 5:30.
Also headed to Kellogg Bird Sanctuary. Meeting 9 am outside NR.
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