We saw one of Chicago's Snowy Owls in the wild!!!!
Today we travelled into blustery Chicago in search of the famed snowy owls at Montrose Harbor. The Chicago Tribune had run a front page article, declaring their invasion of the lakeshore & since my favorite little mister is still OBSESSED with owls, we thought we would pray really hard that we would see some and go in for a viewing!
To see this owl take flight was truly awesome.
{my favorite little mister designed the above photo layout so that you could see an insert of the close up of the owl above his head}
We arrived at Montrose Harbor at about 12:45 and since it is a large widespread area, I immediately started looking for other photographers with HUGE equipment to try to get some shots of their own. Amazingly enough, we parked next to 3 photographers who were just leaving and they told us exactly where to find this juvenile male snowy owl.
After his brief flight from the building's roof he decided to land on this light pole. We stood nearby quietly and simply watched him preen himself, turn his head back and forth to look around and just chill out.
Apparently he got bored with our wonder and began to yawn.
This image shows how close my favorite little mister got to the owl, which he has named Silent.
All photography was done by my hubby today! You can see some of my owl art here.
Thank you God for such an awesome experience!
Grace & Peace,
Julie
2 comments:
Julie, that is SO awesome! Lainey cut out the article from the paper and taped it to the back door earlier this week. We were wondering when we could get downtown to try and spot them. How awesome!!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
Julie, that is SO awesome! Lainey cut out the article from the paper and taped it to the back door earlier this week. We were wondering when we could get downtown to try and spot them. How awesome!!!! Thanks so much for sharing!
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