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]