While looking for the Merlin that was here weeks ago, I heard ,then saw a single male Purple Finch. Anyone interested, enter the main gate and keep to the right clear down to the green maintenance building. there was a tight grove of spruces in which he was perched atop at about 4 pm.. Lots of black coffin looking things stacked near here. No Merlins were sighted, and except for the finch it was pretty empty. Greg C. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]