On my drive home this evening at about 4:45, I saw a Snowy Owl fly up
On my drive home this evening at about 4:45, I saw a Snowy Owl fly up very close to the road, headed over some farmhouses toward a corn field. I was headed south on State Route 4/235 just a mile or less south of I-70. I was in heavy traffic, but was able to get two good looks at it for several seconds each; before and after it flew behind a barn and tree. It had a fair amount of the dark mottling on the back, and snowy white underneath. I pulled off at the ramp to 235/Chambersburg Road and onto the shoulder to regain my composure and look back to the north by the farmhouses and barns.
I couldn’t find it, and the traffic in my stopping place was a little worrisome, so I went back north on 4 to the next road going west. This is New Carlisle Road, but becomes Taylorsville Rd. and heads west. I pulled in at the first dead-end spur by Route 4 by a couple houses and looked back southwest over the cornfields, but didn’t see it again in the fading light.
This is extreme northeast Montgomery County, technically City of Huber Heights; but it is very close to the four corners of Montgomery, Miami, Greene, and Clark Counties.
The north end of the runways of Wright-Patterson AFB, from where they fly C-17 Globemasters all over the world, is less than 2 miles to the east. There is a block of farmland to the west, bounded by Route 4, Chambersburg Rd., Bellefontaine Rd., and Taylorsville Rd. The bird was headed west when I lost it.
Brian Menker
Dayton/Springfield
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