We hope you will brave the cold and come hear an excellent program on Barn Owls by Ken Duren. Members and guests welcome! See you this Tuesday! Darlene Sillick Columbus Audubon, co-program chair Please join us Tuesday, January 28th as Kenneth Duren of the Ohio Division of Wildlife fills us in on the recent history of these "ghosts of the night." Once nearly extirpated from Ohio, the Barn Owl has staged a remarkable comeback. A conservation victory? Ken will tell us all about it. 7:00 - 7:15 pm: CA Short Program: You've heard that Peregrine Falcons nest on top of several buildings in downtown Columbus. Maybe you've seen videos of falcons at nest boxes, or even seen these incredible birds swooping over the city. Karen Norris, Wildlife Communications Specialist with the Ohio Division of Wildlife, will tell us about Peregrine Falcons in Ohio. 7:15 - 7:30 pm: Social time and refreshments and be sure to take the bird quiz and be in a drawing for a special prize 7:30 - 9:00 pm: Main program, door prizes Columbus Audubon public programs are free and open to the public. All programs are held at the Grange Insurance Audubon Center 505 West Whittier St in the Scioto-Audubon Metro Park on the Whittier Peninsula. WWW.columbusaudubon.org ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]