A news report this week describes the sighting of a snowy owl in Central Park, New York on the baseball diamond. This is so rare that the last reported sighting of the bird in central New York was in the winter of 1890. It is more common to see a few birds on the south shores of Long Island. These birds travel in wide ranges from their main habitat in the Arctic and it could be that this bird had travelled down to New York in search of food.