Nyc and Viola, the yellow-crowned night-herons, have returned to the usual Columbus spot and were perched shoulder to shoulder in the westernmost nest on Preston Rd. The other pair is expected soon. This is a pretty late date for arrival. At lunch nearby at Jeffrey Park in Bexley, we had three winter wrens, seven sapsuckers, and the first Swainson's thrush I've heard about this spring--a pretty early date. Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]