Coming home late yesterday I made a quick stop at Shaker Lakes (Horseshoe). Picking around on the mudflats was a lone rusty blackbird. Next, driving through Highland Park Cemetery, I stopped to watch a merlin harassing the starlings and a pair of flickers, and saw my first of year pine warbler. A quick loop through the new Cleveland Memorial Garden Cemetery on Green Road, to count the ring billed gulls. 160. Under my own feeders, (Geauga Co.) a record four fox sparrows stirring the leaf litter, along with six white throated sparrows. Two purple finches on the feeder. Inga Schmidt Chagrin River Road ______________________________________________________________________ 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]