Hi all, It looks like we'll have a good crowd for the upcoming February 24 Owl Symposium - details at http://www.ohiobirds.org/ and I look forward to seeing everyone. There's room for more, too, and we welcome you with open arms for what should be a very interesting and informative event. The Hueston Woods lodge is enormous, and lots of owlers can fit in there. Ohio Ornithological Society board member Bill Thompson, known to many as the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest, is event MC, and his lovely and talented wife Julie Zickefoose is one of our speakers. If you haven''t seen her new book, Letters from Eden, which is hot off the presses, check it out. Anyway, Bill and Julie are excellent musicians, too, and often play with their band, The Swinging Orangatangs (I know its "Orangutans", but they put the "tang" in Orangutan!). Jules and Bill, who will be freshly back from an expedition to Guatemala, will be there and in good tune to play music on the Friday night before the symposium. Try and come on down Friday night and hang out with everyone and have some fun. And to whoever asked, no "Hooters" is not sponsoring this event! Jim McCormac Columbus, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]