Hi all, It looks like a good turnout for the February 24th OOS owl symposium, and I'm looking forward to seeing everyone there. For those coming down on Friday evening the 23rd - and it looks like that will be quite a few of us - I wanted people to know that Bill Thompson and Julie Zickefoose will be playing music and singing from about 7 pm to 9 pm. If you'll recall from my last post about this, Bill (OOS board member and talented musician) and Julie (Bill's better half and even more talented!) play in a band called the Swinging Orangutangs and are lots of fun to listen to. So come on down Friday night if you can, and be part of the action. The owl symposium will be held at Hueston Woods lodge & resort, and more details can be found at: http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/society_events/current/about.php We are thrilled to have owl expert extraordinaire Denver Holt as our keynote speaker. Check this link for a look at the now famous National Geographic article that featured Snowy Owls and Denver's work with them: http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0212/feature6/index.html We'll take registrations for a few weeks yet, and can fit plenty of folks into the capacious Deer Creek lodge. As with all our events, we welcome everyone, and hope to see you there! 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]