Too late for the Great Backyard Birding weekend or the blitz, I had 1 RUSTY BLACKBIRD in my yard this morning. It had a yellow eye, and had a shorter tail than the 3 Common Grackles it was associating with. Not as iridescent as the grackles, it was definitely not a starling. ~Kathi Hutton Clermont County, SW 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]