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Photos courtesy of Larry Waddell
Camera in hand, Larry Waddell went to the Coast Guard Station at Artist Point in Grand Marais early one morning to investigate why the seagulls were making such a clamor and causing such a commotion.
“It was a snowy owl they were pestering, and the owl flew out onto the rocks on my approach. I slowly walked out on the break wall to get shots of him sitting on the rocks and all of a sudden, a wolf jumped up onto the break wall from the island and started running toward me. The camera was firing like crazy and as he got within about 15 feet of me. I wondered
‘Where is he going to go?’ Then he leaped across the water onto the rocks where the owl was. The owl flew, the wolf ran down the rocks and disappeared and I stood there in awe!”
Snowy Owls are usually found in more northern climates this time of year, so Larry Waddell was surprised one
paid a visit to Artist Point in Grand Marais.
Waddell received an even bigger surprise when he discovered this wolf on the Point, one eager to make the
snowy owl its’ lunch.
The wolf gave chase, to no avail, as the Snowy Owl used its’ six-foot wing span and took flight, soaring into the air
and heading for a safer port.
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