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On the Road: Searching for a snowy owl

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At -2C it wasn’t exactly balmy but there were chinook clouds on the western horizon.

I’d hoped to find a snowy owl out here at this time in the open country between Standard and Hussar .

But there were plenty of sparrows hanging out in the caraganas and hundreds of horned larks.

A female looking proud and majestic perched on a fence post just a few kilometres down the road.

She was having none of that, with a few sweeps of her silent wings, she took off.

I quickly turned around and headed back up the road in the direction she had flown hoping she might light on the fence further up but, no, she had been swallowed up by the pale sky and bright snow.

VR Score

85

Informative language

86

Neutral language

70

Article tone

informal

Language

English

Language complexity

22

Offensive language

not offensive

Hate speech

not hateful

Attention-grabbing headline

not detected

Known propaganda techniques

not detected

Time-value

medium-lived