After scouting some survey locations for territorial Great Horned Owls in Champaign County, I stopped at the Oak Dale Cemetery at the southern edge of Urbana. There was a small group of hemlocks towards the center of the cemetery so I stopped and listened for a few minutes. It was very quiet except for some quiet "crackling" sounds. Intrigued, I walked around one of the trees and 23 WHITE-WINGED CROSSBILLS exploded from the backside of the tree. The group flew to the other side of the cemetery but then came back after a short while. From what I could tell, there were 21 males and 2 females. -- Aaron Boone Columbus, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]