I include below a post that appeared last night on the SE Michigan mailing list. Michigan birders Karl Overman and Robert Epstein, in their quest for good Ohio lists, have added to our knowledge of our state's birds over the years. It's interesting to contrast the estimable Ohio lists reported by Michigan "poachers" with the comparatively puny lists our "poachers" have for Michigan. This despite the fact that the official Michigan list has 12 more species than Ohio's, so we can't say we have the birds and they have the birders! Additionally, I imagine if we looked at combined Mich/OH lists, the wolverines would be well ahead. Draw your own conclusions... Bill Whan Columbus Subject: Ohio cherry picking From: Karl Overman <martineoverman AT earthlink.net> Date: Wed, 3 Sep 2008 23:57:19 -0400 I am having a hard time posting on Ohio-birds so I will post something on birding today in Ohio. Robert Epstein and I did some cherry picking of Ohio stake outs today, September 3rd. We started on Township Road 145 in Coshocton County. What a great road for natural history enthusiasts. The threesome of Wood Storks were already busy feeding in the small roadside pond by 6:50 am. We stayed in the area for over an hour and they were still feeding there. Passerines seen along that road included Hooded Warbler and Yellow-throated Warbler. We drove over to the Hoover Reservoir and from the Galena boardwalk we saw the five White Pelicans on the far side of the reservoir--two were swimming and 3 were resting on an island. Shorebirds along the boardwalk included 1 juvenile Stilt Sandpiper and a Semipalmated Plover. We then moved over to the Twin Lakes area on the north side of Columbus where at 11:45 am we found the Marbled Godwit actively feeding in channel on the mostly dry flats. Cheers, Karl Overman Farmington Hills, Mi. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]