Hello all, Today, Saturday, March 15th is the Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas safe date for: Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Cardinal Red-bellied Woodpecker Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse Already in safe dates: Rock Pigeon Barred Owl Great Horned Owl House Sparrow After the safe date, hearing or observing a bird in suitable breeding habitat counts as an "OS" observation. If you relocate a singing male in the same location 7 days later they become a T7 code, or probable breeder. To learn about "Birding techniques for Atlasers" attend ornithologist, Dr. Andy Jones', talk at Data Get Together on March 19 at 6:30 pm. This program is free and open to the public. We meet in the Cleveland Museum of Natural History library. Arrive early and bring your summer bird checklists, volunteers will help you enter the data from 5-6:30 pm. The snow is melting and spring is coming! Peace, Terri Martincic Cleveland Museum of Natural History www.cmnh.org Ohio Breeding Bird Atlas II, Region 30/40 www.ohiobirds.org/obba2/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]