The Ohio Wildlife Rehabilitators Association(OWRA) is pleased to invite the birding community to our Saturday night banquet with special guest speaker Norman Smith from the Massachusetts Audubon Society & Blue Hills Trailside Museum and Norman Smith Environmental Education Center in Milton, Massachusetts. Norman has studied birds of prey for over 35 years, including rehabilitating the injured and successfully fostering over 1,000 orphaned hawk and owl chicks into adoptive nests. His ongoing long-term projects include trapping and banding migrating hawks and owls in the Blue Hills Reservation, banding nestling hawks and owls, and doing research on snowy owls and other raptors wintering at Boston's Logan International Airport. He has also traveled to Alaska to study snowy owls in their native tundra habitat. His research work has been published in National Geographic, National Wildlife, Ranger Rick, Yankee, Massachusetts Wildlife, Bird Observer, Birding, Sanctuary, Geo, Nature, Grolier Encyclopedia, Owls of the Northern Hemisphere and Owls of the World. His mission is to use the information gathered from his research to stimulate a passion in everyone he meets to help us better understand, appreciate and care for this world in which we live. While OWRA welcomes all to our weekend long conference we are offering the Saturday night banquet dinner and speaker separately. The Conference is from November 11-13th and is being held at the Holiday Inn at Routes 270 and 23 in Worthington. For more information including registration go to www.owra.org/events <http://www.owra/events> Or contact Manon VanSchoyck at 740 967-8320. I've seen Norman speak and he is fantastic! Hope to see you there! Thank you, Manon VanSchoyck OWRA Board member and Co-conference chair ______________________________________________________________________ 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]