I was delighted to see Robert Evans mention "Fritz" Griffith in his
posting about the Red Phalarope at Buckeye Lake. Thanks to "Fritz", I saw
my life bird Red Phalarope at the Hebron Fish Hatchery in Licking County
on September 27, 1968. Esther Reichelderfer and T.H.Reamer were with me.
I also saw a Red
Phalarope there on September 11, 1975. Thanks to "Fritz" I saw 16 life
birds at the Hatchery from 1967 through 1974. He began working there in
1941. He knew how to raise and lower the water levels in the ponds so a
multitude of fish were raised and also so there would be shorebird
habitat in some ponds during their spring and fall migrations. There was
also at least one pond where rails, bitterns, Marsh Wrens and Common
Moorhens nested.
Jim Fry

Hocking County

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