From International Festival of Owls

Here are our winners from our 2026 International Kids’ Owl Art Contest! This year we had about 2,978 entries from about 40 countries and 27 U.S. states!!

Thank you all for your participation in our contest! We hope to see you again next year!

This activity is made possible by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Southeastern Minnesota Arts Council thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts & cultural heritage fund.

Give me a bit to post all the photos! There’s about 2 dozen. Edit: all done!

  • anon6789OP
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    1 month ago

    Lol, poor kid isn’t exactly from Snowy Owl territory! We can cut them a little slack. 😄

    It did make me Google if Hong Kong gets any snow out of curiosity, and the answer is…sorta.

    Hong Kong Observatory:

    Hong Kong’s climate is sub-tropical, tending towards temperate for nearly half the year. During the winter season, it is not uncommon for temperatures to drop below 10oC in the urban areas, and the lowest temperature ever recorded at the Observatory was 0oC on 18 January 1893.

    With intense winter monsoon bringing very cold air mass from the north, sub-zero temperatures could sometimes occur on high ground and in the New Territories, where there were reports of frost, ice, rime or even slight snow. From 1967 to 1975, there were four days with slight snow reported in Hong Kong (see table). Although frost and ice still occasionally occurred in winter, there was no more report of snow ever since.

    The more you know! ☃️