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Hi all, I'm a new comer to posting birds. Many of you may know that I post my sightings via Howard Horne. Well, he's hinted around that I should post myself. Unfortunately this is not a posting about what I did see, but rather what I did not see. Today, I participated in the biannual river survey of the Wakulla River. The Limpkins have all but disappeared from Wakulla Springs State Park. I have been monitoring their numbers on the Wakulla River for quite some time now. Last year around November, they left. All I have seen for the past 8 months has been the occasional female. For the first time that I can remember, I could not find a single Limpkin nesting on the river this summer. Also, I have not heard their calls, the river seems to have an eerie silence without them. This decline may be related to the massive hydrilla infestation that has taken place at the park. I was wondering, how are Limpkins faring through out the state? Tom Kennedy