On February 8 and 9th, we had a major blizzard. I guess Canton was slightly spared compared with some of the neighboring communities. Nonetheless, we had approximately two feet of snow, plus drifting, over a 24 hour period. Birds started feeding as soon as the sun came up on the 9th, and snow and win did not keep them from trying to find nourishment. At the end of the day, we spotted an eastern screech owl in one of our boxed. At the end of the 9th, the plow arrived, and the next morning (2.10) I was able to go down to the street. 

On walking back up from digging out the mailbox, I found the remains of a dead animal in the driveway, evidence of a kill from an owl. I have seen this once before after a heavy snowstorm. About ten years ago, I found remains of a dead rabbit in the snow, with wing marks suggestive of a great horned owl strike. This time I initially thought that the villain was the screech owl I had seen yesterday, particularly since it ate only part of the head.

And then dragged the remains of the rabbit about 100 feet along the drive, probably never becoming airborne. [There was fur scattered along the driveway, to where it eventually dropped the carcass.]

Additional photos from the storm, and on the demise of rabbit on : http://michaelross.zenfolio.com/p866271091 

However, I was wrong about the culprit: it was a barred owl, a species that I had not previously seen in the yard. On the evening of the 10th, I was driving up the driveway after dark. Headlights of the car picked up a barred owl, sitting on the snowbank where the carcass of the rabbit had been. We looked each other in the eye, before I drove back to the house, hoping that he would sit still until I fetched the camera. Alas, no such luck - when I returned a couple minutes later he was gone.