On the way to do some atlasing in Pike County, Brad Sparks and I stopped by Charlie's Pond near Circleville. At 7 AM the Black Rail was calling incessantly. Interestingly, the road by the pond was littered with the smashed bodies of tiny frogs. I assume these were some of the cricket frogs that have been creating the confusion about Yellow Rails. On the way back from atlasing, we stopped at the OSU west campus in Columbus and found the pair of Bell's Vireos in the scrubby vegetation just west of the Carmac parking lot. Happy birding, Paul Gardner Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]