Great way to start your 2017 bird list and/or your January 100 list are Christmas Bird Counts! Sunday, January 1, 2017 is the Ottawa NWR Count. Meet at the old trail head parking lot at 7:45 AM Monday, January 2, 2017 is the Gypsum Count which includes Marblehead peninsula, Bay View, Castalia, Resthaven, Catawba Island, Port Clinton, and Sandusky Bay. Meet at Big Bopper's on SR 163 east of Port Clinton at 7:00 AM. Or contact me. We have 6 coverage areas for the Ottawa count which all can use help and 8 coverage areas for Gypsum (two of which are uncovered right now). Tom -- H. Thomas Bartlett Tiffin, Ohio [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]