Late yesterday afternoon, driving through the cemetery, I found almost 70 juncos feeding in the grass under the gum trees. A small flock of pine siskins (20) was zipping from tree top to tree top, before settling in on the gum trees, hanging onto the seed pods, like so many bobbling ornaments. The crow mob was gathering at the golf course adjacent to the cemetery. Hundreds and hundreds of crows. I took the time to count them a few days ago, as they flew in, and got well over 1000. Didn't see the merlins, but the crows were dominating their usual haunts and had most likely disturbed them. I saw one on my previous stop, shredding dinner, on it's perch by the oil tanks. 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]