Please start sending your posts to texbirds@xxxxxxxxxxxxx I've had this request from many, so I thought I would share with all A great mic that goes into your audio jack of your mobile phone and allows you to do very effective recordings of birds that you can share easily Edutige EIM-001 and it is $25 with Amazon The only problem is that it is small and easy to lose, which I have done. I took a small ziplock jewelry bag to put this into and still lost it! I quickly realized I needed a replacement. I used it to record the Black-capped Vireo, in case we didn't get pictures; to record the Hutton's Vireo; to record the Red-eyed Vireo last week. I can quickly send the sound file off to my wonderful ebird reviewer, before the record gets there. I also use it when I don't recognize a birds song. With this heat, all the water features are very active with birds, but we sure need some rain for our ponds. We run a drip into them from the wells, but nothing like a rain. It takes .25-.3" of rain on the 5 acres of rooftops at the school across the street to fill one of our ponds. The young Red-shouldered Hawks must have fledged. They were crying near the Warbler Pond today. Lots of young coming to the water and very confusing White-eyed Vireos. Susan Schaezler WarblerWoods.org 501(c)(3 ) Cibolo/Schertz Sent from my iPadEdit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds