Were you guys using tapes? On Jun 1, 2008, at 9:57 PM, Joe Faulkner wrote: > Fellow birders, > > Linda Helm, Vicki Derr and I decided to chase the Black Rail at > Charlie's Pond today. If hearing is any measure, we had great > success, > hearing the bird(s) six or seven times, from both sides of the > road, around > 5:00 PM. In my opinion, there were at least two. Several times we > were > within 6-8 feet of this bird, as it called to us, but yet we could > not see > it. None the less, it was still a life bird for all three of us, > and while > not seen, it was heard so clearly and so often, there was no > mistaking it > for anything else. Another birder actually did see the bird just > before we > arrived, but I will not steal his thunder. Let him tell you. > > Thanks to Paul Gardner for the timely post about this > sighting. A lot > more people know about Charlie's Pond, and a lot of people got a > life bird, > thanks to the internet. I can still remember dialing 221- WREN to > hear Tom > Thompson tell us where the birds were. > > Joe in the woods > Somerset, Ohio > 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]