Rare snowy owl spotted in New York City’s Central Park.

Visitors were in for a treat at New York City’s Central Park on Wednesday morning as a snowy owl was spotted on a baseball field. Social media is flooded with pictures and tweets about the owl as excited netizens posted about it.

WHAT IS THE STORY?

Bird watchers flocked to the Central Park earlier this week after a snowy owl was spotted in more than a century, CBS New York reports, citing experts. The owl was photographed in the park’s North Meadow. As per the report in CBS New York, a snowy owl was last spotted in Central Park in 1890.

Manhattan Bird Alert, a Twitter account, posted about the snowy owl and also shared a video.

“The SNOWY OWL of the Central Park North Meadow was not much bothered by the crows that gathered around it earlier and that have now returned. People are staying behind distant fences and being quiet and respectful,” it said.

Several others tweeted pictures and shared their experiences. “It was truly wonderful to get the opportunity to see the historic rare appearance of the Snowy Owl in Central Park in NYC even for a moment,” a user said.