Christian Artuso packs a long-lens camera and binoculars into the car just in case, but it’s his headlamp and ears that will really come in handy when trying to locate elusive owls in the dark in eastern Manitoba.
“We probably won’t see very much,” Artuso says. “I really enjoy hearing them against the quiet of the forest.”
He turns north off the Trans-Canada Highway and drives down a bumpy gravel road that cuts through boreal forests.
A great grey owl perches on a dead tree in an eastern Manitoba bog at dusk. (Submitted by Christian Artuso)
Artuso straps that headlamp on and steps out of the car parked next to a frozen bog. As the sun sets and temperatures drop below freezing, he sights a familiar
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