Hi, This evening there was a Merlin perched in the same dead preroost tree as seen this time of year for the past 2 years. I have to presume that it is the same bird. The tree is along a very busy street but borders a small golf course. I have yet not been able to determine the exact tree it flies to after it leaves its perch. I have been watching to see if it would come back again this year and it did! Amazing!!!! Suzanne Butcher Trumbull County, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]