much frenzied chipping, buzzing and bird calling in the vegetation of the woods just south of the dunes nature preserve this morning (05/18/2008) at headlands beach state park led emil bacik and jerry talkington to investigate all the chatter and commotion. at this time of year it was thought that a roosting eastern screech owl was buried in the vegetation. the bird was flushed out and jerry found it just inside the coast guard property - it was a northern saw-whet owl!!!!. this tiny owl was being mobbed by the resident blue jays, american robins, and northern cardinals and also migrant warblers such as american redstarts and black-throated blue warblers. certainly this bird was very much a surprize at this time in the month of may. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]