Hi all, The Ohio Ornithological Society, Black Swamp Bird Observatory, and the Toledo Naturalists' Association are pleased to announce our upcoming warbler symposium, to be held September 8 and 9 at Lakeside, Ohio, on the shores of Lake Erie. Details are up and available on the OOS website at: http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/society_events/current/Lakeside/about.php We're pleased to have a great lineup of speakers, including Jon Dunn, Kenn Kaufman, Elliot Tramer, and Bill Evans. Jon wrote "Warblers" along with Kimball Garrett - the ultimate guide to North American warblers. Kenn certainly needs no introduction here, and Bill Evans is the premier researcher of night calls and studies involving nocturnal passerine migrations by using sounds to determine what birds are passing over in the evening. Elliot is a professor at the University of Toledo, longtime Ohio birder, and has made many travels to Central America where he has studied "our" warblers in their tropical haunts. We are especially excited to have as our keynote speaker Victor Emanuel, founder of VENT. This is one of the oldest and most respected eco-tour companies, and Victor has traveled widely throughout the world, which has given him a big picture perspective on our globe-trotting warblers. Read more about our speakers at the link above. The second day includes field trips with experts to the best birding locales on the shores of Lake Erie, at the absolute peak of fall migration for warblers. Descriptions of the trips are also on the website. I 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]