A strange croaking song came from the wooded swamp/marsh at Brushy Fork Bay on Clendenning Lake (parked at Brushy Fork and Elk Run and walked to the end of Brushy Fork). Thanks to my wife buying me a Bird Jam for my birthday, I was able to ID it as a Common Merganser by going through the marsh group. I heard this call last year several times and told Scott Albaugh there was a strange bird in this area. Hopefully, a canoe trip will confirm this auditory ID and possible breeding. In my struggle to learn bird songs, I heard no less than 5 through the fog that I could not ID except to say, warbler! All is not lost I was able to recognize Cerulean, Hooded, Kentucky and Redstart. Scott Pendleton ______________________________________________________________________ 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]