Hi all, There are a few spaces available for this year's Ohio Ornithological Society annual conference, which will be held on the weekend of May 18-20 at Mohican State Forest near Mansfield. This is a staggering beautiful place, and is heavily populated by interesting birds. All of the nesters will be back by then, which includes a number of hemlock-dependent rarities like Winter Wren, Canada Warbler, and Hermit Thrush. The total list of breeding birds for Mohican exceeds 100 species in any given year. That should be a good time of year to pick up later migrants, too, such as Mourning and Connecticut warblers, and Yellow-bellied Flycatcher. Keynote speakers are Steve McKee, who probably knows more about Mohican's biology and habitats than anyone, and the incomparable master of sounds, Dr. Donald Kroodsma. Don wrote the book, The Singing Life of Birds, which is a modern classic. As always, there will be plenty of great field trips led by topnotch birders. If you choose to learn more about the conference, go to: http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/annual_meeting/meeting.php Hope to see you there! Jim McCormac Columbus, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]