A highly cropped photograph taken on Friday of a Snowy Owl along the Hudson River Greenway, was posted on Twitter on Saturday. I wasn’t paying attention, but a friend emailed about it late in the afternoon. I wasn’t sure I was going to go look for it, but I didn’t have wine with dinner just in case. I got a text around 8:45 letting me know the owl was found, and I jumped into a cab.

The owl ate two Brown Rats over the course of about three hours, while perched on a mound of mulch inside a fenced in compound. It ate the first Brown Rat, left with the second, but then returned with the second rat within about twenty minutes. It didn’t finish eating the second Brown Rat until after midnight.

Just like the Snowy Owl in Central Park, this owl has found a safe, protected area to eat.

When the owl was hunting, and after it flew out after the second Brown Rat, gulls left their roost on the Javits Convention Center’s green roof. About fifty gulls scattered.

On Sunday, I went at dusk and waited until 10:00 pm. The owl wasn’t seen but around 200 gulls flew up from the Javits Convention Center roof around 9:00 pm, so the owl might still be in the area.

Visits on Monday and Tuesday showed no signs of the owl, and the Javits gulls roosted peacefully each night.