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Fri, 4 May 2012 08:28:17 -0400
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If the RUFF is present today, will someone please shoot me an email?  I used to live in Japan and have a soft spot for Eurasian birds.  

Thx - 
Kris D'Atri
Wooster

On May 3, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Tom Bain wrote:

> A female Ruff was located this evening in Wright Marsh, Killbuck Wildlife
> Area. Park off R226 in the small wildlife area lot a few miles south of
> Wooster (from R30, take route 3 south a short distance to R226 south, then a
> few more miles at most). Walk the gravel road leaving the lot east, then
> northeast until you pass under the power lines, then begin looking in the
> pool and flat areas to the west and north. The Ruff was reportedly
> discovered Monday by Aaron Miller (hope I have the name right), then lost
> until this evening at about 7:00 PM. Jackie and I found the group that found
> the Ruff while we were looking at three White-faced Ibis we followed from
> the east side. We left the Ruff in the same area at about 8:15 PM. Two
> Short-billed Dowitchers with a single chunky Long-billed Dowitcher gave easy
> close looks, too. A nice evening.
> 
> The Ruff closely resembled the Sibley illustration of breeding female with
> loose floppy tertials, lanky and busy. We'll get a photo out there (it's
> already on Jackie's Facebook wall).
> 
> Tom and Jackie Bain.
> 
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