The local photographer exhibits images from his 2009 book The Owl and the Woodpecker. What do the two have in common? Woodpeckers create burrows in trees that some owls later inhabitits arboreal gentrification! Theyre flipping trees to the highest bidder! And owls are like yuppies who swallow mice whole, then cough up little pellets of bone and gristlejust like shopping at Whole Foods. A refugee from the tech sector, Bannick decided to document all 41 species of the two birds, and the results of his three years at the tripod are colorful and impressive. Who doesnt get a thrill when a snowy owl comes down from the Arctic to roost in a local fir? And who wouldnt like a better look at our common, fidgety red-shafted northern flicker? Then theres the beleaguered northern spotted owlits name once synonymous with controversythat still faces extinction if current trends continue. And a final fun owl fact: The great horned owl, despite its superb eyesight and hearing, has so little sense of smell that itll happily kill and eat skunks. BRIAN MILLER
March 19-Aug. 7, 10 a.m.-5 p.m., 2011