{"id":6791,"date":"2015-12-28T09:00:28","date_gmt":"2015-12-28T14:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/?p=6791"},"modified":"2016-01-04T09:01:24","modified_gmt":"2016-01-04T14:01:24","slug":"take-5-snowy-owls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-snowy-owls\/","title":{"rendered":"Take 5: Snowy Owls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Snowy owls are special winter visitors to our state. These enormous birds may appear in high numbers when food is plentiful at their arctic nesting grounds and they raise lots of young. Learn more about Mass Audubon’s efforts<\/a> to rescue and track their movements and enjoy these five remarkable images from past editions of our Photo Contest<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\"2013

2013 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Bill Wakeham<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Diane Robertson<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2015

2015 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 David Morris<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2015

2015 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Gary McPhee<\/p><\/div>\n

\"2014

2014 Photo Contest Entry \u00a9 Nathan Goshgarian<\/p><\/div>\n

View the winners<\/a> of the 2015 Picture This: Your Great Outdoors photo contest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Snowy owls are special winter visitors to our state. These enormous birds may appear in high numbers when food is plentiful at their arctic nesting grounds and they raise lots of young. Learn more about Mass Audubon’s efforts to rescue and track their movements and enjoy these five remarkable images from past editions of our […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[158],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-take-5"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3t87A-1Lx","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":14922,"url":"https:\/\/blogs.massaudubon.org\/yourgreatoutdoors\/take-5-superb-snowy-owls\/","url_meta":{"origin":6791,"position":0},"title":"Take 5: Superb Snowy Owls","author":"Ryan D.","date":"November 16, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"They're here! 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