I'm a beginning birder, and am very excited about sightings of the ivory-bill woodpecker in Arkansas and a pair of pileated woodpeckers in my own back yard. Recently on NPR I heard of a sighting of an owl I hadn't known of before, the northern hawk owl, right near here. According to local news reports, several dozen people went out yesterday and photographed him/her, but so far I haven't found any local pictures. Apparently this bird up to now has only been seen in upper Canada and Alaska. Maybe global warming isn't as bad as we thought? What are your thoughts?