Birders, It is terrific to watch for resident and migrant birds no matter where you go. Around the city of Cleveland here are a couple of observations: Northern Mockingbird singing it head off in the Hough neighborhood the late afternoon of April 8, 2011 Ring-billed Gulls carrying gobs of nest material to one of the rooftops on the Cleveland State Univ. campus morning of April 9, 2011 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker flying across Chester Ave. (and East 70 something) the morning of April 9, 2011 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]