Hi all, I've had a number of people ask me about the Green Lawn Cemetery Merlins in Columbus, especially in light of two nice articles that featured the birds in Sunday's Columbus Dispatch. So, even though Monday is a holiday for many - Martin Luther King Day - we have also made it "Merlin Day" and anyone who wishes to see and admire these neat little falcons is invited to join us at Green Lawn at 10 am next Monday, January 15th. Some of us with the Ohio Ornithological Society will be there with scopes in hand, and we'll do our best to get good looks at the falcons. Green Lawn always has other interesting birds within its 380 acres, and will likely stumble into other noteworthy birds, so this will probably become a general bird walk, too. We'll probably be around for a few hours, so if you can't come at 10 am, you can probably find us somewhere wandering about later. We will meet by the west end of the "pit", which is the pond near the center of the cemetery, just south of the large chapel building. When you enter the cemetery on Greenlawn Avenue, just keep following this road into the core of the cemetery and you will see the chapel ahead. Keep heading toward that and then look for the pond to the left of the building a short distance. Greenlawn Avenue is the first exit south of I-70 on I-71; just get off and go west, and the road eventually dead ends into the cemetery. Their website is: http://www.greenlawncolumbus.org/ Jim McCormac Columbus, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]