Early this morning while feeding the birds at the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, I saw and heard 1 Rusty Blackbird among a few Red-winged Blackbirds. Here are the birds I saw: 1. Rusty Blackbird - 1 singing 2. Red-winged Blackbirds - several 3. Tundra Swans - 2 flocks 14 and 21. 4. N. Pintail Flyovers - 4 5. N. Cardinal - 2 males singing like its spring! Ok, I'm on my way to the NW Ohio Naturalist Gathering at Oak Openings Metro-park. For directions to the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, please go <file:///C:%5CDOCUME%7E1%5CCHRISK%7E1%5CLOCALS%7E1%5CTemp%5Cmsohtml1%5C01%5C clip_filelist.xml> to our website at www.bsbobird.org <http://www.bsbobird.org/> . Our building is open (winter hours) Friday, Saturday, and Sunday from 11:00 am to 5:00 pm. HAPPY BIRDING EVERYONE, Christopher J. Knoll Education Director Black Swamp Bird Observatory 13551 West State Route 2 Oak Harbor, Ohio 43449 Phone: 419-898-4070 Fax: 419-898-1363 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]