While looking for possible owl nests in the cemetery I heard a red breasted nuthatch, and wandered over to have a better look. The nuthatch was energetically excavating a small hole in the limb of a maple tree. I could hear another red breasted nuthatch nearby. It left the tree and picked around in the taxus and then returned to the cavity. (Seen in section 2, from the road between 2 and 5.) First heard the nuthatch there earlier this week. Inga Schmidt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]