Ohio birders have added several shared bird reporting hotspots to eBird. http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/ With these additions there are now over 2500 "hotspot" locations in eBird. Many birders visit the Ohio eBird Hotspot web site because they have liked the BirdTrax gadget on the front page which shows rare bird sightings across the state. The developer of this gadget has let me know that Google will be discontinuing support of gadgets in late January. He has developed a different gadget called AccuBirder, which he is hosting on his own site. AccuBirder is now on the front page of the Ohio site to give you information about rare bird sightings. I am working on the county pages adding AccuBirder and, at least for a while, keeping the BirdTrax display of current bird sightings. There is not room on the front page of the site to display both gadgets. Please contact me personally if you have feedback about this change. New "hotspots" include: Cuyahoga County Maple Cliff Dr. Lookout http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Maple+Cliff+Drive+Lookout Ralph J. Perk Plaza http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Ralph+J.+Perk+Plaza Franklin County Hoover Reservoir--Spillway http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Hoover+Reservoir--Spillway Greene County Glen Helen Preserve--Camp Greene http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Glen+Helen+Preserve--Camp+Greene Lake County Holden Arboretum--Conifer Section http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Holden+Arboretum--Conifer+Section Holden Arboretum--Holly and Winterberry Collection http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Holden+Arboretum--Holly+and+Winterberry+Collection Medina County Greenleaf Park http://ohioebirdhotspots.wikispaces.com/Greenleaf+Park Ken Ostermiller eBird Hotspot reviewer for Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]