New Member From Upstate NY

[Dean Romig]

Kathy and I went to Salisbury Beach State Park yesterday in Salisbury, MA - just on the North side of the Merrimack River in Newbury, Ma from the Plum Island National Wildlife Preserve. On the marsh side of the State Park, which encompasses a couple of thousand acres of tidal marsh, among the ice cakes tossed up on the bare marsh flats, I saw what I thought was a Snowy Owl. We get several here each winter but not large numbers of them. It seems like they simply take up winter residence here lately.
I walked back to the car and got my new Zeiss 10X42 binocs (nice!) and sneaked back to get a bit closer and have the sun behind me.... Sure enough, it was a big snowy - probably a female - and when she had had enough of this interloper she took wing, flying low (about 5 or 6 feet) over the marsh, with a black duck in its talons and landed about 400 yards away to continue plucking it.





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[Hixie]

Snowy Owls are fearsome predators...we should be glad there aren't 100 pounders out there. We'd all need 8 gauge parkers to protect our children.

I like to eat black ducks too. I checked out Zeiss binocs when I was in the market for a good binocular back in '94. They are indeed nice! I ended up with Leica BA 10 x 42s which have served me well. I am not sure why I chose them over Swaro and Zeiss; they are all excellent.