I visited Greenlawn Cemetery on Friday afternoon at 4:30 PM. After ensuring that the Owls were not present I carefully approached the nesting tree to see if anyone else had been there with a ladder. I got close enough to check for footsteps and any disturbance in the snow around the tree and there was none. No footsteps other than mine were closer than 30 feet so I don't think anyone was near the tree with a ladder. I was there only briefly but did not see any pellets on the ground or any "staining" on the tree as there has been in the past several years. I got out of there quickly and back to my car. Hopefully the Owls will be back. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]