This is mostly to apologize. The editor of a local newspaper wanted me to identify three binocular-toting subjects photographed decades ago. I forgot I couldn't share the photo with folks on this list. Thanks to friends with better memories and connections than I. The photos and names will be published Thursday in the Short North Gazette, a periodical established and long edited by Tom Thomson, with internet address of www.shortnorth.com . His successor, Margaret Marten, has prepared a tribute to Thomson and was hoping birders could identify the folks in the photos, and some of you have been very helpful in doing so. I recognized Ernie Limes of course, but I had to be told Tom was the one with the beard (!), and the name of the third was new to me. Hoping those of you interested will be able to read the tribute, Bill Whan ______________________________________________________________________ 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]