Snowy Owl (Nyctea scandiaca)

Vagrant ***       

     Got lucky today 5th January 2009; walked to the general area and waited for the bird to find me ..... About 30 yards distant

  Two digiscoped images from the 5th January    With company.  Crows had been mobbing it with very little effect

  Quite a trek to get this one.  Late afternoon on the 27th December.  About 70 yards distant

About 500 yards away.  A record shot digiscoped through my Leica Scope on 21st December 2008

The first Snowy Owl in Cornwall for about 60 years.  Looks like a first winter bird.