Hi Ohio Birders, Late posting: On Sunday, Cincinnati birder Paul Wharton found 18 White-winged Crossbills at Mitchell Memorial Forest, a Hamilton County Park, on the west side of Cincinnati. My husband and I observed the birds that same day mid-afternoon. It was a life bird for my husband. FYI: the crossbills were NOT seen on Monday. Here's a link to the Cincinnati Birds website: http://cincinnatibirds.com/goodbird/sighting.php Here's a link to MMF:http://www.hamiltoncountyparks.org/parks/mitchell.htm Also on Sunday, during the 45 minutes that we stood alongside the stone shelter house at MMF watching the crossbills feed in the hemlock grove, wave after wave of Sandhill Cranes passed nearly continuously overhead. I conservatively estimate 800 to 1000 cranes but it easily was 1000+. Kathy McDonald and Ned Keller arrived towards the end of the Sandhill flight: they saw approximately 500 cranes. Unfortunately, in that time period, the crossbills had 'nomadically' vanished from the pine grove. Ann Oliver, Cincinnati ______________________________________________________________________ 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]