My hoard of 80+ BH Cowbirds have left and no longer overwhelm my feeding station in Fremont, Ohio. Now, beautiful Common Grackles (Counted 40+ today) appeared suddenly. My resident Cardinals, pair of Carolina Wrens, Blue Jays, WB Nuthatches, Red-bellied woodpecker, Hairy and Downy woodpeckers, House finches, Mourning doves, Sharp-shinned hawk, Black- capped chicadees, Goldfinches, Starlings and House sparrows(yuch) are back to their normal feeding. Robert I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn. Henry David Thoreau (1817 - 1862) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]