Hi All, Many of you already know that every issue of Birding, the magazine of the American Birding Association, is filled with valuable info for every serious birder. But you may not know that the upcoming January 2010 issue is going to have a particular focus on Ohio. The cover of the issue is a spectacularly beautiful piece of artwork by our own Jennifer Brumfield, featuring spring migrant warblers at the boardwalk at Magee Marsh. I think this may be the best Birding cover EVER done ... if you haven't seen the brilliant artwork that Jen has been doing recently, prepare to be blown away! On the inside of the issue, world birder (and Tropical Birding guide) Sam Woods has written a stirring essay about traveling to observe migration, and he puts a special emphasis on northwest Ohio (the Magee Marsh / Ottawa NWR area) as one of his favorite places. Finally, there's an in-depth article that I wrote about the Magee area and the factors that make it so great for observing spring migration; the article is illustrated with photographs by Ohio birders Brian Zwiebel and Delores Cole. The Jen Brumfield cover by itself should be enough to make this issue a collectors' item for Ohio birders, and the stuff on the inside is just gravy. This post is mainly a heads-up for non-members or lapsed members of the American Birding Association: If you've been thinking about joining or renewing your membership in the ABA, doing it now would get you on the list for this special issue. Kenn Kaufman Oak Harbor, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]