Greetings---there must be a huge number of horned larks and snow buntings in Ohio the last few days.  I saw more today in rural Ashtabula Co. and northern Trumbull Co. than I usually find there in a whole year.  Mixed flocks could be seen along melted roads, stubble fields and wherever fresh manure was spread.  The day's total numbered 310 horned larks and 255 snow buntings.  That's pretty good for the far NE corner of Ohio in February.  I also tallied 135 Am. tree sparrows today, all along roadsides and ditches/streams with flowing water.  Other birds of note today:  4 black-crowned night-herons at the Ashtabula Power Plant; 4 Am. kestrels in Ashtabula Co.; 3 Wilson's snipe in Williamsfield Twp.; 3 white-crowned sparrows in Cherry Valley Twp.; a Lapland longspur in Dorset Twp.  L. Erie from Conneaut to Ashtabula was mostly frozen, with some good-sized leads of open water far offshore.  Ducks were few, gulls present in modest numbers.   Later, Craig

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