In addition to the excellent movement of waterbirds this morning (3/25), there were abundant songbirds migrating as well as a brief, but heavy hawk flight. In all I ended up with 72 species and never left my yard. Observations were made from the same area I do my waterbird survey at Lakeshore Reservation.. Songbirds moved throughout the morning. I missed a lot of early morning blackbird and robin flocks as they were moving a little more inland and I was watching the lake. There was nothing of note with the songbirds. Hawks and vultures started around 11:30 and ended a little after 1:00 when the wind picked up out of the north and the temperatures dropped from 54-43 degrees. Best hawks were an adult goshawk and a rough-legged hawk. here are the songbird and hawk totals: Turkey vulture 622 Sharp-shinned hawk 4 NORTHERN GOSHAWK 1 adult Cooper's hawk 6 Red-shouldered hawk 19 Red-tailed hawk 36 ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK 1 American kestrel 33 Mourning dove 87 American crow 533 Northern flicker 1 Tree swallow 41 Eastern phoebe 1 Eastern bluebird 23 American robin 1,070 Golden-crowned kinglet 8 Chipping sparrow 1 Fox sparrow 14 Blackbirds 9,760 (Grackles most common followed by red-winged blackbirds, cowbirds, and rusty blackbirds) Eastern meadowlark 27 John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 440-259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]