I spent a couple hours birding yesterday at Columbia Reservation and did not see the purple gallinule. It was a beautiful evening and I enjoyed watching and listening to many other species. Highlights were great-crested, eastern kingbird, and willow flycatchers, Baltimore orioles, yellow and common yellowthroat warblers, red-eyed and warbling vireos, and a couple green herons. Dave P Please consider the environment before printing this e-mail This message and any response to it may constitute a public record and thus may be publicly available to anyone who requests it. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]