New Year Old Birds...

Jan.2/14

Happy New Year from PRRS!

I'll start off with my collage of Northern Goshawks, it has been a remarkable year for Goshawks up here in Peace Region. Almost every grain terminal i've checked has either had a couple of Northern Goshawks hunting pigeons or a Gyrfalcon.

It has been quite awhile since my last post, Snowy Owls are here but in very small numbers and all so far have been adult birds. I'm not surprised since the winters of 2012/13 there was a huge movement of almost all juvenile birds.

Heres a male I caught back in November.

The fall started off with a good number of Gyrfalcons and the first was seen on October.28. I caught this beautiful adult male on Nov.9/13

Its been a very long time since I've caught a Great Horned Owl, they a very un common around Peace River.

And here is the first and only Northern Hawkowl so far this winter.



Heres hoping a winter full of new birds in 2014!