Following up on Russ' report from Lima of having Red-winged  Blackbirds at
his feeder, I, too, can report one in my yard today.  I live  in Clintonville, a
suburb on the north side of Columbus.  I'm excited  to have seen - and heard
- this bird in my yard this morning because it is  my personal first sign of
spring!

Previous "first dates" of seeing them in my yard  are:
2005 - March 11
2006 - Feb. 25
2007 - March 3
2008 - Feb. 18

In some years I saw them somewhere else before I  saw one in my yard.  In
some years I had the  first grackle or brown-headed cowbird of the season in my
yard before the  first red-winged blackbird.  In every year I heard of them
being seen  elsewhere in Ohio before I saw one in my yard.  No matter... spring
is here  now as far as I'm concerned!

Debbie Woischke




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