In LOMBARD, Illinois bird watchers are still talking about a recent rare sighting of a snowy owl in suburban Lombard.
I don’t know if you heard, or maybe even saw this rare thing in the Chicago suburb, Lombard. Some times you could even clearly see it with bear eyes, but to say you the truth,
birding binoculars won’t hurt. For example, with
Bushnell NatureView Binoculars you will be able to witness this beauty in its natural state.
Snowy owl usually prefers to stay in northern Canada, Russia or Greenland. They eat rodents, but when the food is short, they most likely will migrate to different places, as did this one. Snow owls have migrated as far as you can imagine: Alabama and Illinois. This snow owl settled up over the apartment building overlooking the Yorktown Center Mall. And it hung around for a long time, enough for birders to hear it and rush to see it with their
binoculars.
It seems that this owl had moved on, but we’re hoping to see more novelties this year.