Snowy Owl Spotted Perched On Bermuda Roof
A Snowy Owl was seen by a group of Rubis workers on Thursday on top of an oil storage tank, and it was later found on a house roof near Gibbs Hill lighthouse by Tim Brewer, and photographed by Andrew Dobson.
A post on the Bermuda Audubon Society’s Facebook page asked people to continue to report sightings, and noted: “There have only been 3 records in the past 30 years and about a further 10 historical records.
“Snowy Owls move south from their Arctic breeding grounds with some reaching the US East Coast and accidentally to Bermuda.”
According to National Geographic, “The snowy owl is a patient hunter that perches and waits to identify its prey before soaring off in pursuit. Snowy owls have keen eyesight and great hearing, which can help them find prey that is invisible under thick vegetation or snowcover. The owls deftly snatch their quarry with their sharp talons.
“A snowy owl’s preferred meal is lemmings—many lemmings. An adult may eat more than 1,600 lemmings a year, or three to five every day. The birds supplement their diet with rabbits, rodents, birds, and fish.
“These magnificent owls sometimes remain year-round in their northern breeding grounds, but they are frequent migrants to Canada, the northern United States, Europe, and Asia.”
- Photo courtesy of Andrew Dobson
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i hope they like pigeon
real #Tears lol
beautiful bird!
Lucky for the owl that David Wingate has retired!
Well, if it likes lemmings it has come to the right place. Quite a few here. Too bad the Bermuda variety is a tad on the large size for it to catch.
Oh well, there are plenty of feral chickens & pigeons around.
Beautiful bird. Think about how long it must have been inflight to get here. No 2 hours for it. More like 2 days.
Who said id doesn’t Snow in Bermuda??
Oh good my letter to hog warts must have arrived!!!!
I have seen an owl like this at night fly across Cavendish Heights. It was amazing.
That is a beautiful bird. The last time I saw an owl like that was back in 1986. Behind Sand Piper GGuest House on South Shore I watch it take off and fly over to the old training school.
I saw this owl sitting on a roof and being chased by crows in St. David’s on Tuesday.
Awww…poor thing…
“Snowy Owls move south from their Arctic breeding grounds with some reaching the US East Coast and accidentally to Bermuda.”
“Umm…where am I???”
Clearly a male owl…lost and won’t ask for directions!
Clearly a male owl…lost and won’t ask for directions!
There we go….by far the most likely reason the bird wound up here.
That, or he is an arctic taxi owl which refuses to use GPS.
Well you wrong… Its a female, the males has less black in their feathers .
It was meant tongue-in-cheek. I’m no expert on owls.
Geesh, some people take everything so literally.
Last time I remember a snowy owl finding it’s way to Bermuda, David Wingate shot it because it was preying on cahows.
I have been told this one has also, or will also be shot so that it can’t kill any Cahows. I hope that was incorrect information. Is it not possible that it could be darted, trapped and then housed at the BAMZ? Can someone enlighten?
“BERMUDA??? But my GPS said I was headed for Southampton, Massachusetts…”
My mom saw a car in the yard and went outside to see why they were there and found people with cameras and binoculars, they wouldn’t get out of the car because of the dog, but when they did they let her see this amazing owl on the roof and then it flew they think to South P.
How do they know he was headed for the South Pole-did he file a flight plan?
It was delivering my Hogwarts acceptance letter…
someones pet escaped
It’s a young snowy. A male doesn’t turn pure white until it matures.
Sad to see it down there…my backyard in Saskatchewan, Canada, is more to its liking.