Hi all, I got a phone call about 9 am this morning at my office; it was from a woman in Medina County who had a Purple Gallinule stalking about her yard. The amazing thing is that this bird is only about 20 miles south of the celebrity gallinule at Columbia Reservation in Lorain County. I could stand it no more and begged off work and headed north. By the time that I got to the Medina residence, about 12:30, we could not find the gallinule, but I did see the photos. If this bird reappears she'll let me know and I'll let you know. As a completely adequate consolation I drove to Columbia Reservation and was rewarded with awesome looks at that Purple Gallinule. Should have some decent photos, and I'll stick some on my blog later. Jim Jim McCormac Columbus, Ohio Like Nature? http://jimmccormac.blogspot.com/ Like Birds? http://www.ohiobirds.org/ MIDWEST NATIVE PLANT CONFERENCE: http://cincinnatibirds.com/mwnp/ __________ Information from ESET NOD32 Antivirus, version of virus signature database 4415 (20090910) __________ The message was checked by ESET NOD32 Antivirus. http://www.eset.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]