A snowy owl has been spotted in Southern California – a long way from its natural habitat in the Arctic tundra.

Poet and artist Frieda Hughes talks fondly of the painstaking process of taking an intimate portrait of one of her beloveds – Wyddfa the snowy owl ...

Here, Snowy Owl Mania contributes to the 200 vehicles in the main beach parking lot on weekends. Off-season permits for vehicles to drive the four-mile dirt road between the bay and the ocean cost ...

And Rudyard was tied for first with Canada with 23 Snowy Owl sightings. "They're just a magnificent, amazing bird and we're so lucky to be up in a place where they're the most consistent, really ...