Great Gray Owl
Strix nebulosa
On March 4, 2005, I heard Jim Duncan speak during the festival of owls organized by Karla Kinstler at the Houston Nature Center in southeast Minnesota. That evening, word was spreading of a great gray that had wondered farther south than usual to nearby Winona County. Over the next few weeks many people saw the bird, including my husband and me. While watching the owl perched on a fence post, its feathers ruffling in the wind, we could clearly see its yellow eyes and white bow tie. Soon it dove for prey and missed, then moved across the road to another fence post. Not wanting to disturb the first great gray we had ever seen, we soon left, wishing it well.
Fifty Common Birds of the Upper Midwest, watercolors by Dana Gardner, text by Nancy Overcott
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