A lively, noisy, colony of great blue herons has reestablished itself at the rookery on Chagrin River Road in Bentleyville. I counted just under 40 birds in the sycamores, some already sitting on their nests. What a racket! when all of them took to the air at once. A cacophony of herons would be more descriptive than a seige. A pair of red tails swooped by, disturbing five wood ducks in the river below. 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]