I thought I'd pass this on to everyone...the Christmas Bird Count season is rapidly approaching. I look forward to these events every year and I'm trying to figure out how to squeeze in as many as I can. In my planning efforts, I was unable to find one source of info that contained current date and compiler info for each count coming up for the 07/08 season. I should have explored the OOS site (www.ohiobirds.org) more thoroughly to look for this info because there's a very handy winter bird count section ( http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/winter_counts/winter.php - which is under the calendar side bar menu). This section even has an interactive map that shows all count circles that you can click on to access compiler info, etc. As far as I'm able to tell the majority of count circles have updated count dates for this season. If not, the appropriate contact info is listed so you can find out. While I'm on the topic of useful things that can be found at the OOS website...I was recently blown away by the weekly checklist tool available at (http://www.ohiobirds.org/publications/checklist/weekly/weeklylist.php). Not sure why I never came across this in the past. Basically, the checklist tool asks you for the date that you'll be birding and generates a one page PDF checklist of species particular to a 5 week period surrounding that date (who needs a big list of warblers on a checklist when you're birding in mid-November!). This a real gem. I know of no other state birding website that has such a useful web application. Good birding! Aaron Boone 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]