When you watch owls, you have good night and bad nights. Owls can easily disappear out of view or perch for hours. Recently, we’ve had a string of difficult nights.

However, Friday night turned out to be one of the best nights I’ve had watching him. The group watching him had him in view for four hours and he hunted on the ground near his roost tree, caught a Brown Rat (or possibly retrieved a previously caught rat that he cached or had fallen from his roost during the day), ate the Brown Rat. Later, in the same spot the Snowy Owl bathed, he played in the water and took a bath.

It was a wonderful evening.