Hi all, This maybe a first for the middle of Lakewood. Yesterday, I was sitting on the patio, when a Great Blue Heron came down and landed a few feet from my small pond. It took a few steps toward the pond, and looked around, and just as fast as it came, it took off. New yard bird for me. Mike Lakewood, 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]