My wife Denise and I would like to put out an invitation to the birding community, to come and visit us at The 6th Annual Optics Fling, this upcoming Friday and Saturday, in the vendor's hall from 10:00AM to 5:00PM. Our exhibit will provide information on "The Center", and have interesting out of the ordinary bird mounts, along with a couple of mammal mounts. Some of the bird mounts on display will be: Chuck-will's widow, Artic Tern, Dovekie, Clapper Rail, Harlequin Duck, Sage Grouse, Lesser Prairie-Chicken, Barrow's Goldeneye, and Cinnamon Teal, just to name a few. For those who have not visited "The Center", in reality it is a museum of natural history, with over 395 bird and mammal mounts in natural settings. Everything from a full size Musk Oxen to a Great Gray Owl can be seen, with a Passenger Pigeon thrown in for good measure. In The Ohio Room, the "WOW Room" as we call it, birds and mammals that have been, or are regularly found in Ohio, can be seen. If you were to take The Ohio Division of Wildlife "Birds Of Ohio" Field Checklist, mounts of 192 of the species on the list can be found at "The Center". The location of "The Optics Fling" is 6954 County Road 77, Millersburg, about halfway between the towns of Mount Hope and Bunker Hill. See you there!





Bob and Denise Lane



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