My business partner, a non-birder but an avid outdoorsman, has a barn in Russell Township, Geauga Co.  He has 6 or 8 barn swallows now and has had for several weeks.  He believes at least two of them have been there most of the winter.  I need to verify this, but his cleaning up after them on one of his trucks is a pretty good qualifier.  The Ohio graph shows nothing until the last week of March, and I know of no records at any of the CBC's.  Does anyone know differently?
Dave English, Chagrin Falls..2/27/13

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