At 4:50 this afternoon(Wednesday, December 16) I saw 25 sandhill cranes(in groups of 13, 7, 3, and 2)make a graceful landing on the mud flats while I was at the boat launch area in Deer Creek State Park. They flew in from the northwest. Jim Fry ______________________________________________________________________ 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]