Hey all, Registration for the upcoming Owl Symposium, held by the Ohio Ornithological Society and Miami Valley Audubon, is open, and we welcome you to that event. It will be held February 24th at Hueston Woods State Park, which is not only a great venue, but in a good area for a variety of owls. And we will look for owls, and hope to have a number of species staked out and viewable by attendees. We are also excited by our lineup of speakers. The keynote address will be given by Denver Holt, founder and director of the North American Owl Institute in Montana. Denver's work on Snowy Owls was featured a few years ago in the pages of National Geographic magazine. Also speaking will be Ohio artist and author Julie Zickefoose, who is very well known to many of you. Her book, "Letters from Eden" is hot off the press, and she has an interesting and informative blog at http://www.juliezickefoose.com/blog/index.php/ Dr. David Russell of Miami University will also be speaking, and any of you who have heard Dave know what an interesting and educational presenter he is. Kelly Sieg rounds out the list of speakers, talking about Northern Saw-whet Owls and the interesting banding work that she and others are doing with this species in Ohio. They will all be ably introduced by the legendary MC Bill Thompson, editor of Bird Watcher's Digest, who will also provide entertainment in other ways, no doubt. You can see a bit more about this at my blog at http://www.ohiobirds.org/blog/blog.php or the OOS website at http://www.ohiobirds.org <http://www.ohiobirds.org/> I hope to see you there! Jim McCormac President, Ohio Ornithological Society ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]