In the spring of 2010 I heard about a pair of Great Gray Owls nesting a five hour drive from my Anchorage home. Since I had never seen a Great Gray Owl I never even considered the 10 hour round trip drive, I simply loaded up and took off! That spring I made multiple trips to photograph the adults, and their fledgling. The spring of 2011 was disastrous in that something raided the nest (that must have been a fight), and caused the adults to vacate the area. I was floored. It had taken me years to locate Great Gray Owls, and I had to start over. Then the winter of 2011/2012 arrived, and with it...Great Gray Owls! Not one, not three, but many many Great Gray Owls. An irruption! And everyone of them within minutes of my Anchorage home! Up until this point, I was prepared to jump on a plane to photograph the irruption of Snowy Owls down in the States, but I trashed those plans to photograph what was in front of me; and that is Great Gray Owls!