Hi everyone, You might be interested in coming to Put-in-Bay during the spring birding and Warbler migration. This is quite a hot spot the first two weeks in May. The Elder Hostel comes here every year over that time period and several of their events are open to the public. Here is a list of events. 7:15pm May 3,4,5 and May 10,11,12 at our Town Hall there will be guest speakers on various aspects of birding. I know that Tom Bartlett, one of Ohio's premier ornithologists, will be a speaker on one of the nights. He is also a "Master Bander" and will likely band his 50,000 bird here this summer. He sets nets almost every morning on those days down on the east point of the island. Any morning but Wednesday the public can watch. Tom loves an audience and is a wealth of information. On May 5th Mona Rutger from Back to the Wild, (was the Animal Planet person of the year in 2008) will be here as well to give a talk. On May 6, 13 there is a day trip on the Jet Express to Canada to track the bird migration to Pelee Island, one of the most famous in the region. It is an all day event, with a lunch included. You buy tickets directly from the jet express (www.jet-express.com) On a related note world renowned Canadian writer Margaret Atwood hosts Bird Song one of those weekends as well over on Pelee. Hope you can come for a visit. Peter and Amy Huston First Island Son B&B (firstislandson.com) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]