Recent sightings

Bird’s-eye view
Katie Diehl, a veterinary ophthalmology resident, performs a follow-up exam on a great horned owl recovering from cataract surgery at the School of Veterinary Medicine. The bird’s eyes were found to be healing well. Sue and Jeff Theys, caretakers at Wildlife of Wisconsin, a wildlife rehabilitation organization in Manitowoc County, hope to move the owl to a larger flight cage in the spring to see if it can hunt live prey before they release it back into the wild. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Taking the plunge
Undergraduate students from the School of Music, left to right, Chris Clausen, Mike Anderson, Matt Blasinski and Tony Alvarado-Ortiz, jump into the ice-cold water of Lake Monona during the annual winter Polar Plunge, a pledge-based fund-raising event supporting Special Olympics of South Central Wisconsin. Among the several hundred people taking the plunge were many informal university groups representing athletics, the School of Business, forestry, Kronshage Hall, Ogg Hall, physical therapy, University Police and the School of Veterinary Medicine. (Photo: Jeff Miller)

Bird’s-eye view
A student casts his ballot on Feb. 17 for the Wisconsin primary at Memorial Union, the polling place for Ward 47. All the residence halls on campus east of Babcock Drive comprise the ward. Of the 724 ballots cast, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry drew 228 votes, followed by Howard Dean’s 206, and John Edwards’ 139, according to the Dane County Clerk’s Office. (Photo: Jeff Miller)