Jeff

I lived in rural Alberta, Canada for a number of years. Each winter I would see owls on occasion perched at the top of telephone poles or sometimes fence posts. I'm not sure of the species, but in my memory they are black/grey/brown and white and have ear tufts or horns. Great horned owls? One Fall the snow came very early and many of the barley crops were left in the field, buried in snow until spring. Mice seemed to feast on that grain, under the snow, and their population exploded. (Our house, and the houses of our neighbors, were invaded by mice.) That winter the owls were everywhere--it seemed almost every telephone pole had one at the top. They feasted on the mice, who were feasting on the grain. Magnificent animals.