The Snowy Owl had been using both the Eastern and Western halves of the North Meadow ballfields since it arrived. On Sunday, February 14th, the owl made a few passes, and I believe one visit to a backstop, but didn’t linger like it had been doing on other nights.

I stayed until about 7, and then went home to cook dinner. After dinner was done I returned to the park. I started at the North Meadow, since I’ve seen the owl eat here late in the evening, but then went around to other locations it has been seen.

I ended up at the western of the two North Gatehouses of the Reservoir and there was the Snowy Owl. (Many birders call them pump houses but the Croton Waterworks system is gravity fed.) Without anyone there, it stayed perched there from 10 pm until at least midnight, except for two brief flights over the Reservoir.