I was delighted to see Robert Evans mention "Fritz" Griffith in his posting about the Red Phalarope at Buckeye Lake. Thanks to "Fritz", I saw my life bird Red Phalarope at the Hebron Fish Hatchery in Licking County on September 27, 1968. Esther Reichelderfer and T.H.Reamer were with me. I also saw a Red Phalarope there on September 11, 1975. Thanks to "Fritz" I saw 16 life birds at the Hatchery from 1967 through 1974. He began working there in 1941. He knew how to raise and lower the water levels in the ponds so a multitude of fish were raised and also so there would be shorebird habitat in some ponds during their spring and fall migrations. There was also at least one pond where rails, bitterns, Marsh Wrens and Common Moorhens nested. Jim Fry Hocking County ______________________________________________________________________ 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]