I went to Lazelle Woods at 7:00 this morning trying to get breeding confirmation for the red-bellied woodpecker. For a while I was afraid that the cavity I was watching was a dummy cavity since it is in full view of an active Cooper's hawk nest but then on recent mornings I have seen the male stick his head out of the cavity and call for the female. This morning I watched that cavity for over an hour and I finally saw what I wanted to see: the female and the male trading shifts. If that had been the only thing I saw, it would have been fine with me since that is what I set out to see but I also saw both Cooper's hawks (how long after nest building until they start nesting?) song sparrows, northern cardinals, American robins, white-breasted nuthatches, and a killdeer. Al La Sala Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]