Came home last evening to some nice bird action around the yard & pond: 3 purple martins checking out nest house - sure hope they stick around! 2 American Coots from last month are still around & eating under bird feeders in yards 2 Lesser Scaup, male Mallards C Geese Tree Swallows Cardinal, singing male Belted Kingfisher, male Great Blue Heron Red-winged blackbirds Grackles Cowbirds Mourning Doves Am Robins, one building nest in our gutter Starlings Junco House Finches House Sparrows ______________________________________________________________________ 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]