Greetings from the glaciated northwest! I was watching the news this evening when I heard an awful banging on a window. It was my wife Micki, trying to get my attention. Well, it turned out that I emerged from the house just in time to see around 100 Sandhill Cranes fly low over our house. It was, I think, our earliest spring sighting and was the largest flock we have encountered in Paulding County. They were not to be ignored, either; she could hear them long before they became visible and long afterwards. So accommodating when one doesn't have one's binoculars handy! This eclipses our Tuesday sighting of two Turkey Vultures, I think., by a factor of 50 or so! Bird long and prosper, Doug & Micki Dunakin Antwerp, O. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]