Hi all, Just a reminder about the 5th annual Ohio Ornithological Society conference, featuring the Oak Openings. The date is Saturday, May 16th, and we welcome any and all with an interest in birds. The locale is the beautiful Holiday Inn-French Quarter in Perrysburg, just a stone's throw from the Oak Openings and the location of the Mountain Bluebird that is currently spinning Ohio birders into rapturous fits of ecstasy. In addition to the Oak Openings and all of its wonders, both flora and fauna, the French Quarter isn't far from Magee Marsh and all of the western Lake Erie birding hotspots. Conference attendees get a good deal on a room. The complete conference lowdown, and registration material, can be found at: http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/annual_meeting/meeting.php By the way, George Sydlowski took some outstanding photos of that bit of sky-blue loveliness, the Mountain Bluebird, and was kind enough to allow me to share them on my blog. If you are interested, check them out at the URL in my signature line below. Jim Jim McCormac Columbus, Ohio Like nature? Visit my blog: http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/ Like birds? Join the Ohio Ornithological Society: http://www.ohiobirds.org ______________________________________________________________________ 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]