Late this afternoon(Mon., Dec.3)just before dusk, I saw a flock of 73 sandhill cranes in a field on the east side of the Lancaster bypass(Rt.33)going north(me, not the cranes)just 1/10 of a mile before the Rt. 188 exit. Jim Fry Hocking 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]