This afternoon about 1/3 to 1/2 mile west of st.rt. 121 on New Madison-Coletown Road in southern Darke County, Carol Hathaway and I discovered 3 adult sandhill cranes. Are they late migrants or could they be nesting? Before that find, we were birding at a friend's farm/nature area in southern unglaciated Darke County near the origin of the Whitewater River. Cooper's hawks 2 killdeer mo dove red bellied woodpecker 3 flicker 2 empid flycatcher 1 e. phoebe 1 red eye vireo 1 bluejays crows C. chickadee tufted titmouse wh. br. nuthatch house wren 4 or more ruby-crowned kinglet 2 veery ? wood thrush robins catbirds starling yellow warbler at least 4 singing males yellow-rumped warblers 3 palm warbler 1 common yellowthroat 1 E. towhee 2 chipping sparrow 15 field sparrow 7 song sparrow 2 white crowned sparrow singing 1 white throated sparrow 3 cardinals redwing bb cowbirds gold finches ______________________________________________________________________ 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]