Arrived home from work and found a pair of eastern bluebirds checking out our purple martin house - wonder how they liked it. At the end of May a purple martin stayed at the house for 2 weeks but sadly didn't stick around. While walking the dog this evening, I checked on the killdeer nest I'd been watching and the eggs had hatched! 4 fuzzy miniature killdeer were scampering around while mother killdeer lured the dog and I away. Also seen on our walk: 4 chimney swifts 1 cardinal 12+ robins 1 cowbird 1 chipping sparrow 3 barn swallows 1 mourning dove 2 cottontail bunnies 1 ruby-throated hummingbird Happy summer birding! ______________________________________________________________________ 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]