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Published March 09, 2011, 12:00 AM

PHOTO GALLERY: Masters of the Sky

Carpenter Nature Center's birds of prey on display


Teri Schroer releases the barn owl, Farnsworth, to fly over the top of the audience. Photos by Margaret A. Ontl

  • Teri Schroer releases the barn owl, Farnsworth, to fly over the top of the audience. Photos by Margaret A. Ontl
  • Farnsworth, the barn owl, was one of ten birds presented during the program.
  • Carpenter Nature Center’s program director Mayme Johnson brings in the center’s great horned owl during Saturday night’s Owls and Other Masters of the Sky event at the Minnesota Campus of the St. Croix Carpenter Nature Center.
  • Always a favorite, Xena, the Eurasian eagle owl, is common throughout Europe and Asia.
  • World Bird Sanctuary Education director Teri Schroer holds Fred, a hooded vulture native to Africa.
  • Carpenter Nature Center’s resident red-tailed hawk was held by the center’s education intern, Summer Hendrickson.
  • After the program concluded Lenore, an African white-naped raven, accepted donations from the audience including Emily Thorsheim and Emma Christensen from Hudson.