SNOWY OWL SCAT: It’s hard to think of royal snowy owls as whack-o magnets, but they have become that for me. Without fail, so much as mentioning them in here looses some bird brains. My daring suggestion that a couple of these tundra birds may be overwintering somewhere in the 3-mile-long Holgate Refuge gets said whack-jobs squawking like goosed crows.

Last week, The SandPaper dared to show one of my photos of a snowy owl- somewhere within a 3-mile south end stretch.