People tend to be so good at spotting faces that we’ll see them even in trees, rocks, and other things that definitely don’t have eyes, noses, and mouths. Do you see personalities in these pictures? Here are five funny faces from past editions of our Photo Contest.
2013 Photo Contest Entry © David Black
2011 Photo Contest Entry © Richard Brown
2012 Photo Contest Entry © Emily Swartz
2011 Photo Contest Entry © Rory Dexter
2015 Photo Contest Entry © Peter Hall
On Saturday, in the early morning while most of us were sleeping, Norman Smith, Sanctuary Director at Mass Audubon’s Blue Hills Trailside Museum, was at Logan Airport. He wasn’t there to catch a flight, though. He was there to catch a snowy owl.
Snowy owls are drawn to the airport due to its tundra-like landscape, which mimics their summer breeding grounds in the Arctic, and plenty of rodents to dine on. Over the last 35 years, Smith has relocated some 700 snowy owls.
Smith left the airport on Saturday with an adult male owl. Upon further inspection, he discovered it had a band, one that Smith placed on the owl in March 2014. (As a side note, last winter Smith captured an owl that he originally banded 23 years ago!)
Norman Smith, with the help of his granddaughters, releases Salisbury.
Before releasing the owl on Sunday at Salisbury Beach State Reservation, Smith gave “Salisbury” a new, high-tech gadget: a solar-paneled transmitter courtesy of Project SNOWstorm. This allows Smith, the researchers at Project SNOWstorm, and the public to track and study the owl as it travels back north to its breeding grounds.
Read about the release in the Boston Globe and find out more about the Snowy Owl Project, including how you can support this important work.
Be sure to check out the updates via Project SNOWstorm blog.