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A major winter invasion of snowy owls is going on during the Winter of 2017. Lemming and small rodent populations have crashed in the arctic forcing these birds to move south in order to find food. This is a significant crop of a photo that I took a few weeks ago along the Lake Huron shoreline of Michigan. I would have loved to have taken a frame filling shot of the head, but I did not want to approach closer which stresses out these birds. That is why I am presenting this small image for printing.

Jim Zablotny is a natural historian, entomologist, and nature photographer from Fenton, Michigan. His present work emphasizes color, detail, and bold composition of natural subjects. His artistic endeavors included scientific illustration, and presently nature photography with subjects ranging from macro photographs of insects and wildflowers, to birds, reptiles,amphibians, and mammals. Many of his newer images are photographs of the living things found in endangered habitats like prairies, and fens. Jim is a regular participant on the Nature Photographers Network (http://www.naturephotographers.net/enter.html) and has earned Editor's picks for weekly and monthly presentations for his macro-photography of insects and wildflowers. One...