Hello Everyone, I'd like to invite all of you to kick off the New Year in fine birding form by joining Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO) and the Ohio Young Birders Club for the Fremont Christmas Bird Count on January 1st. This is a great opportunity to start off your 2011 year list and bird some really interesting areas of Ohio that you might not have visited before! For more information please call BSBO at 419-898-4070 or visit us online at: http://www.bsbo.org/events/Fremont_Christmas_Bird_Count.htm I'd also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who joined us for the year's Lake Erie Pelagic trips hosted by BSBO, Discovery Tours of Cleveland, and Inside the Great Outdoors Radio. We sold out every trip this year and, in addition to the hope of seeing some rare birds, the fact that we had some ridiculously good field trip leaders had a lot to do with the trips' appeal. Our thanks to: John Pogacnik, Jen Brumfield, Gabe Leidy, Mark Shieldcastle, Larry Rosche, Kenn Kaufman, and a whole host of Ohio's best birders, for making these trips so much fun. I'd also like to offer a special thanks to the crew of The Holiday for taking such good care of some crazy birders willing to brave whatever Lake Erie might throw at you this time of year. We're going to do the trips again next year (we're even looking into the possibility of doing some out of the Toledo area) and we hope you'll join us! I should also mention that the program on wind turbines in migratory bird stopover habitat that BSBO was scheduled to give this afternoon for the Naturally Speaking monthly lecture series at Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge has been postponed due to weather. For more information on the subject visit here: http://www.bsbobird.org/wind_energy.htm Thanks! Kimberly Kaufman Executive Director Black Swamp Bird Observatory 13551 West State Route 2 Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449 419-898-4070 www.bsbobird.org www.ohioyoungbirders.org www.biggestweekinamericanbirding.org Become a fan of BSBO on facebook at: http://www.facebook.com/bsbobird Follow BSBO on Twitter: www.twitter.com/bsbobird ______________________________________________________________________ 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]