Staked out the boardwalk at Spring Valley for three hours yesterday morning (Tuesday, 5/11) and for an hour today before the torrent without locating the Purple Gallinule that was observed on Sunday. Anyone visiting Spring Valley to try for the Gallinule might take a short (1/2 mile) side trip to the fallow field at the corner of Old Stage and Sears Roads (Old Stage comes into Rte. 42 from the east a quarter mile north of the turn on Roxanna-New Burlington Road for Spring Valley). This morning I counted 20 Dickcissels here, many singing, and that was in just 15 minutes. My thanks to the birder who posted the sighting of these birds on eBird! Bird well, Paul -- Paul Dubuc, Dayton, OH at sign beween pauldubuc and gmail dot 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]