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This female Snowy Owl appeared near
Montrose's "Magic Hedge" in Chicago, Illinois, USA sometime
during the last week of October 2000. Although Snowy Owls are
regular winter visitors to the Chicago lakefront, late October is rather
early for this visitor from the Arctic to arrive.