Gary Ritchison has posted a couple of new links for the 1991 article on the Transient Lakes season of 1989 at the following links for *.pdf and *.htm formats. Hopefully the article will be accessible to all in one of the three formats. I am also going to try to scan a couple of Gordon Wilson's early articles on the transient lakes sometime in the near future for linking to. http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/WoodburnLakes.htm and http://www.biology.eku.edu/kos/WoodburnLakes.pdf Last week, Danna Baxley and Eric Williams with KDFWR reported hearing and getting glimpses of a couple of marsh birds at KDFWR's relatively new Clear Creek WMA in Hopkins County, but they were not sure what the birds were. Yesterday several of us returned to the site and confirmed the presence of several Least Bitterns (I think one was building a nest). The site can be accessed via a gravel boat ramp along Utley Road (KY Gazetteer p. 61, southeast corner of block B-8). The ramp is at a small gravel parking area on the south side of the Clear Creek bottoms at the corner of Utley Road that is just southeast of the "D" in UTLEY RD on the gazetteer. Exploring the area by canoe or kayak would be ideal, but there are only a few channels and openings amidst the thick growth of Phragmites (reed) and other aquatic vegetation and you have to pick up over a beaver dam or two. Once you get out past a jon-boat wide channel of a 200-300 yards, there are a couple of relatively open pools that look great for everything from moorhens to rails to bitterns; yesterday we saw the bitterns in the second opening (the two are connected by another narrow one boat-wide channel about 50 feet long). Keep in mind that there are quite a few cottonmouths in this swamp, although we saw none yesterday! You *might* be able to get a better idea of where the openings are by checking out the aerial photos of the area at Google Earth on the internet. Eric, John Brunjes and others at KDFWR would be appreciative of any reports of marsh birds that are obtained from visits to this site. BPB, Frankfort