Mike Mielke and I just photographed a Townsend's Solitarie behind his house on 131 East Lakeshore Drive (Himmelen House - big white house with blue trim next to the small yellow house). If you are going to try for this bird there are several problems. The Kelleys Island ferry has a very reduced schedule. It is only running two times on Monday and Wednesday (8:00 AM and 4:00 PM). It isn't running at all on Tuesday or Thursday. Friday, Saturday, and Sunday is runs 5 times a day. I'll post when we see it again during the week. If you try for this bird, when you come off the ferry head west past the Inscription Rock. The house is only 1/4 mile west of the ferry dock. The owners don't mind birders at this time but park on gravel or at Inscription Rock or downtown. More later... Tom -- H. Thomas Bartlett Tiffin, Ohio [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]