Had a new variety of OBBA observation on Sunday - my husband saw a baby Red-eyed Vireo in the beak of a Blue Jay. The parents were not happy. Not the most pleasant way to confirm Red-eyed Vireo, but every species counts. Unfortunately, he was unable to follow the Blue Jay to a nest of its own to confirm this species as well ;-) I think this ranks up their with our previous most unpleasant confirmation. When we were atlasing in Oklahoma, we found a very freshly killed Western Meadowlark that had impaled itself on a barbed wire fence. The confirmation came because close observation of the bird (yes, we pick up dead birds) demonstrated a "highly vascularized brood patch." (And yes, we had been bird banders and knew what to look for.) Have others confirmed species in interesting ways? On a related subject - please consider joining us for blockbusting this coming weekend near Chesterhill (SE Ohio). We'll be there from Friday evening through Sunday. No guarantees of any Wild Kingdom events, but we'll have free food and lodging for all volunteers. Janet Athens OH Janet S. Duerr, Ph.D. Associate Professor Department of Biological Sciences 241 Life Sciences Research Facility Ohio University Athens, OH 45701 Tel.:740-597-1921(office) Tel.:740-597-1923(lab) FAX:740-593-0300 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]