Surveyed for OBBA II, just checking likely looking sites, and preparing to contact landowners. Had 32 species, mostly common birds, but including the following signs of spring: courtship display - northern flicker pair copulating kestrels a Canada goose on a nest herons have returned to a rookery in Knox Co. brown thrashers are suddenly everywhere noisy northern mockingbird FOY singing field sparrows in three locations unseen woodpeckers are drumming wild turkeys are "gobbling" at dawn pairs of eastern bluebirds inspecting potential nest boxes a pair of white-breasted nuthatches going in and out of potential nesting cavities Promising stuff. By the way, I'm told that there are a lot of important OBBA II blocks that have no coverage in Area 59. If I can line up landowners, would anyone out there reading this post be willing to come for a block-busting day or two in June? I'm looking particularly at 59B6SE, a priority block with some potentially interesting habitat variety. With other commitments, I just don't have time to do much more than I already am. Let me know privately, and I'll try to get something together. Margaret Bowman Licking (and now Knox, too) County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]