Owls deserve one more post

A note about a wealth of Snowy Owls came from the South Dakota birding email list Thursday evening. That afternoon, two Sioux Falls birders, Mick Zerr and Pat Dunn, counted 20 Snowy Owls in one small territory near the Lake Andes National Wildlife Refuge. The area -- it's about a five-hour drive from the Twin Cities -- is between 284th and 293rd streets, bounded by US Highway 281 on the east and 389th Avenue on the west. Twenty owls!