Doing a bit of off-local-patch-birding today, Susan Jones and I headed down to Funk Bottoms/Killbuck area. The draw of Amish restaurants may have influenced our decision. It was a slow day for that area, with the biggest disappointment of the day finding the Funk Country Store, closed. Fourteen years of memories … Two highlights were a Northern Mockingbird along Route 95 just outside Funk, and the largest flock of Wild Turkeys either of us has ever seen. Just south of the Wildlife Area Management office on Holmes Co. Rd 1, we counted 125 birds, and probably missed some. We stood on the hill above, watching them graze like a herd of miniature bison. American Kestrel 4 Horned Lark 12 Red-tailed Hawk too numerous, mostly in pairs Red-shouldered Hawk 1 Canada Goose 51 White-breasted Nuthatch 2 Rock Pigeon 28 Northern Mockingbird 1 American Crow 21 Blue Jay 3 Tufted Titmouse 2 Bald Eagle 2 Rough-legged Hawk 4 Mallard 30 Northern Harrier 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Cooper’s Hawk 1 House Sparrow 15 European Starling 12 Mourning Dove 11 Song Sparrow 1 Downey Woodpecker 3 American Wigeon 2 American Robin 9 Northern Cardinal 11 Belted Kingfisher 1 Great Blue Heron 2 Eastern Bluebird 6 Black-capped Chickadee 2 Wild Turkey 127 Clyde Witt www.mywittsend.blogspot.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]