Fellow Birders, With all the thorough bird reports from Magee boardwalk and surrounding areas, I thought I would concentrate on the PEOPLE SITINGS from the Migratory Bird Day. While the birds were leaving on Friday and Saturday, the people were arriving, no doubt breaking records at every site. With thousands on the boardwalk, total gridlock was achieved several times at several places. Amidst the hoards of birders, there were some good sightings. At one point I found myself standing between Dan Sanders and Greg Miller, and felt the pressure to try for 700 birds this year. Jim McCormac was also sited. Tom Bartlett was perched in a new location for his Big Sit, having been asked (or told) by ODNR to move away from the entrance because he was creating a bottleneck. If you were there, you know that the entire bottle was clogged, not just the neck. Also talked to Columbus Avid Birder Doreene Linzell and frequent poster Ben Warner. Later saw Paul Gardner who kindly posts the rare bird reports to the list. Then spotted Jen Brumfield, but I'm sure I missed a lot of the northern species of birders, since I'm a southern ohio boy, myself. Missed Kenn Kaufman, but know he was around somewhere, and missed Bill Wahn, but I heard he was seen at Metzger Marsh hiding in the Phragmites counting birders who visited Metzger. Generally, about one in ten of the birders were Amish, some from Indiana, and this year the number of African American birders was up about four times over past years, which means there were about eight. It would be nice to see this number go up even more. The best license plate was Wyoming, and I personally talked to birders from TWO FOREIGN COUNTRIES, Costa Rica and New Jersey. The Costa Rica birder said he was glad to be able to see all the birds in their colorful breeding plumage. The New Jersey birder noted that you could see all the same birds in New Jersey, but not in the same spot. Traffic on the auto tour was bumper to bumper, and we suggested that next year they do three days. Perhaps Friday could be limited to those with some reference to birding in their Vanity plates. That would still be quite a lot. Anyway, despite the crowds, got 120 birds, including 22 warblers, most of them on Thursday. Joe in the woods Perry County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]