While pulling a weed out of my front flower bed a little before 8 p.m., I heard an odd call overhead, looked up and saw a single SANDHILL CRANE flying overhead. Now that's a great yard bird for a lot that's only about 40' X 100' in the middle of a residential area. I expect it was coming from T J Evans or one of the gravel quarries along the North Fork, as it was flying from northeast toward southwest. Yard bird # 64 Licking Co. bird # 64 for this year; # 191 Licking Co. all-time list (for me). Happy birding to all of you, too. Hope you had as good a day as I have had. Margaret Bowman Licking Co. (Newark) OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]