From: "[log in to unmask]" <[log in to unmask]> Bob Evans, Geologist, etc. Hopewell Township, Muskingum County wrote: Subject: Daniel Boone's Ohio bird riddle The old English vernacular "sparrow" just means a small bird so which little bird would start singing a lot when disturbed? And be inhabiting clearings, not woodlands, but cleared areas that would be devoted to maize, beans, pumpkins, etc.? Certainly not a Louisiana Waterthrush; I would instead suggest the Carolina Wren Scott Moody Ohio University ______________________________________________________________________ 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]