This morning well before dawn, I met Mark Sabo, a local birder and grouse and turkey hunter to search for Ruffed Grouse in Adams County southeast of Peebles. We succeeded between 7:00 and 8:00 am, and in the process, just as the sky started to lighten, we found Whip-poor-will singing and answering Mark's whistle. I also found two Black and White Warblers, an Ovenbird, which sang briefly and then shut up, and two Louisiana Waterthrushes, an apparent pair on territory, Yellow-throated Warbler and a Solitary Vireo, singing briefly. There was also American Woodcock displaying and peenting at this location. It was a dreary cloudy drizzly mourning. Mark found the grouse down the hill from us below the crest of the hill and was drumming so softly that at first I wasn't sure I was really hearing a grouse instead of my own heartbeat. This location was near a relatively recent clear cut area. It was a great spring morning in southern Ohio, even though the sun did not shine. Jay Jay G. Lehman Cincinnati, OH [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]