Lying too far outside general familiarity, here are three Web sites
readers of Ohiobirds might study and enjoy.

(1) From Alan Wormington comes this news from a legendary birding spot
only ~20 miles north of Ohio on the other side of Lake Erie: "The Point
Pelee Annual Bird Report --- for 2012 --- has just been
published. The report is 13 pages long, and includes 27 colour
photographs of various rarities seen during 2012.
The report has been published in THE EGRET of the Essex County Field
Naturalists' Club, and can be seen here:
http://tinyurl.com/cukbt8p
-- scroll down to page 17
Or you can go directly to the entire 13-page report here:
http://tinyurl.com/d9em7fn
But do not try to view with a smartphone, since it is a large file.
If anyone has any corrections, updates or additions to the report,
please send to me privately. Alan Wormington "  Recommended.


(2) At   http://www.birds.cornell.edu/crows/   is the quite informative
site from Kevin McGowan, an Ohio-born and -educated ornithologist now at
Cornell.  An ardent admirer and student of crows, he has much wisdom to
share. He grew up in Springfield, Ohio, where ~25,000 crows continue to
roost yearly.


(3) http://www.netwalk.com/~vireo/boaf.html   is the fascinating and
wide-ranging Web site of Tom Thomson.  Tom is best known among us
perhaps for his "The Birds of Ohio" (two different editions from Indiana
Univ. Press), and as the decades-long compiler of one of the oldest bird
phone hot-lines in North America.  This site hasn't been updated for
years, but it remains uniquely interesting, with essays on birds and
birders of the state, especially the Columbus area.

Enjoy,
Bill Whan

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