There are also two or three recent Snowy Owl reports from the southeastern Lower Peninsula...the closest in Macomb county is only about 100 miles north of Toledo. -- Allen T. Chartier Inkster, Michigan Email: [log in to unmask] Website: www.amazilia.net Blog: http://mihummingbirdguy.blogspot.com/ On Thu, Nov 24, 2011 at 9:16 AM, Cody Porter <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > Hopeful owl enthusiasts, > > Add another five individuals to the west side of Michigan's lower > peninsula, as well as several recent reports from the upper peninsula > (particularly in the Marquette area). > > Good birding, > > -Cody Porter > > > ________________________________ > From: Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Sent: Thursday, November 24, 2011 9:04 AM > Subject: [Ohio-birds] Snowy owls for a change? > > The numbers of reports of snowy owls seem to be decidedly up this year > in regions not far north, and there is reason to hope we'll have more > than usual. See for example a map drawn up by Jesse Ellis for the upper > midwest so far this season http://tinyurl.com/cxdvjd8 . > Not that anyone's predicting anything similar, it's fun to read about > Ohio's great invasion of 1930-31: see > http://elibrary.unm.edu/sora/Wilson/v044n04/p0221-p0226.pdf . > > Bill Whan > Columbus > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > 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] > ______________________________________________________________________ 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]