{"id":15305,"date":"2017-02-23T12:19:46","date_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:19:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=15305"},"modified":"2017-02-23T12:59:15","modified_gmt":"2017-02-23T17:59:15","slug":"it-is-not-too-late-to-photograph-snowy-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=15305","title":{"rendered":"It Is Not Too Late To Photograph Snowy Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_10828\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160221-Snowy-Owl-7D2-1492b-w7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-10828\" class=\"size-full wp-image-10828\" title=\"Snowy Owl\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/160221-Snowy-Owl-7D2-1492b-w7.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy Owl\" width=\"700\" height=\"667\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-10828\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Owl<\/p><\/div>\n<p>It is not too late to photography Snowy Owls in the far northern United States.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15306\" style=\"width: 965px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Feb-001.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15306\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15306\" title=\"170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Feb-001\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Feb-001.jpg\" alt=\"Snow Owl Sightings, February\" width=\"955\" height=\"891\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Feb-001.jpg 955w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Feb-001-300x279.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Feb-001-321x300.jpg 321w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 955px) 100vw, 955px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15306\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Owl Sightings, February<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This is the current (February 23) eBird map of the Snowy Owl sightings in North America for the month of February. The darker the shade of purple the greater the number of sightings.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_15307\" style=\"width: 828px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Mich-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-15307\" class=\"size-full wp-image-15307\" title=\"170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Mich-002\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Mich-002.jpg\" alt=\"Snowy Owl sightings near Rudyard, Michigan.\" width=\"818\" height=\"905\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Mich-002.jpg 818w, https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/170223-sBird-Snowy-Owl-Mich-002-271x300.jpg 271w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 818px) 100vw, 818px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-15307\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Snowy Owl sightings near Rudyard, Michigan, February 2017.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Zoom in on a purple area of the map and you can see the individual locations where Snowy Owls have been observed. Click on one of the red markers to see the dates of the sightings at that location. This is the map for the area around Rudyard in Michigan&#8217;s Upper Peninsula. My advice, whatever part of the country you go to, is to pick locations that have had sightings in the last 2 or 3 days.<\/p>\n<p>Finding Snow Owls is only half the battle. The real challenge is knowing what to do to come away with a great photograph. Everything you need to know to find and photograph Snowy Owls is in my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10986\">Snowy Owl photography series<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Snowy Owl Series<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10986\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How To\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Series: Snowy Owl Photography \u00e2\u20ac\u201c An Overview<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10370\">How to Find and Photograph Snow Owls<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10826\">A Snowy Owl Photo Expedition<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10925\">Snowy Owl Photography: Control the Background for Better Images<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10957\">Snowy Owl Photography: Solving A Photo Problem (And the Right Way to Exit Your Vehicle)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ebird.org\/ebird\/map\/snoowl1?neg=true&amp;env.minX=-141.5888869776553&amp;env.minY=17.12424921446443&amp;env.maxX=-40.86623072765531&amp;env.maxY=59.07684470134284&amp;zh=true&amp;gp=false&amp;ev=Z&amp;mr=1-12&amp;bmo=1&amp;emo=12&amp;yr=cur&amp;byr=2014&amp;eyr=2014\">Snowy Owl sighting map at eBird.org\u00c2\u00a0 <\/a>-\u00c2\u00a0 Be sure to set the map for the current month so you know where the most recent sightings are.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=14072\">\u00e2\u20ac\u0153How To\u00e2\u20ac\u009d Series: Winter Photography<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u201c An Overview<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=8514\">How to Be A Better Wildlife (and Nature) Photographer<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10751\">How to Find Wildlife, The Best Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=10774\">How To Photograph Wildlife, The Best Books<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is not too late to photography Snowy Owls in the far northern United States.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15305","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15305"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15310,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15305\/revisions\/15310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15305"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15305"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15305"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}