I just noticed that Milton Trautman's unfinished last work on Ohio birds, the completion of which was interrupted by his death in 1991, is now on the open market. See http://www.amazon.com/Birds-Western-Lake-Milton-Trautman/dp/0976854716 . His friend Ronald Stuckey oversaw the species accounts and editing of accounts for about half the state's birds as Trautman lay in his deathbed. I highly recommend that Ohio birders, especially those from the western Lake Erie region, have a copy. Trautman's magisterial work of 1940, "The Birds of Buckeye Lake, Ohio," is available free online at http://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/56289/MP044.pdf?sequence=1 , and there is no excuse for a student of Ohio's birds to remain ignorant of it. Clear thinking, field verification, historical perspectives, quantitative data, even the occasional twinkle of humor, enliven this classic work. Serious birders should have both of them. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]