Hello all- Sorry for the late post, but I just wanted to share my exciting Sunday... I was just watching the feeders around 1p, counting the usual suspects for FeederWatch, when a GREAT BLUE HERON flew out of the gully behind my place and on to my cement patio!! He checked out my birdbath and took a few steps toward the feeders and then flew off. What you need to know is that my yard is quite small. It is a 25' X 25' fenced in area with a small cement patio and a bird feeding station. This bird was just a few feet from my window! It was a great reminder of how big these herons really are! I enjoyed the odd visitor and hope you all get a nice birding surprise this week. Here's the yard list: GREAT BLUE HERON White-throated sparrow Song sparrow Downy WP Red-bellied WP WB Nuthatch Cardinal Blue Jay Junco Goldfinch Mourning dove E. Starling Sarah Milliron Albany, Ohio (Athens County) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]