The blog will be down for a few days. We'll be back after Christmas.

Keep an eye out for Snowy Owls. A report came today from two birders in South Dakota who found 15 Snowies in one day, 13 of the along six-mile stretch of 390th Avenue, which is east of Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge. The refuge is in the southeast corner of the state, just west of Ravinia.