Hi Everyone, Yesterday afternoon Beth and I went out in the beautiful sunlit afternoon to walk trough snow-covered Lake View Cemetery. No Merlin this time, Mostly Black-Capped Chickadee, White-breasted Nuthatch, Tufted Titmouse and really quite a few Blues Jays. the jays were vocalizing a lot, and one group seemed very agitated, making us hope we'd see a raptor, but no such luck. The best thing we saw--and it was good--was a couple of Rufous-sided Towhees. This morning about 7 AM I heard a White-throated Sparrow repeatedly singing the first few notes of the typical song. Can spring be far away? Best wishes. Steve Cagan Cleveland Heights, Cuyahoga COunty -------------------------------------------- Steve Cagan, photographer [log in to unmask] www.stevecagan.com www.pbase.com/stevecagan 216-932-2753 (USA) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]