Well after two days of my family visiting, I bid them adieu and then got my camera and started looking...make that listening for Dickcissels. I went yesterday over at Big Island WA with my dad and struck out...I think that it was a matter of a windy day...nothing was calling. So we called it a birding day, and went classic/antique car looking instead. Today, I went over to Hardin County to CH 215 and heard and saw them up on the power lines at the corner of CH 63. I took a couple of shots, no trees or anything so nothing eye catching. So I continued down 215 heading down to TR 50 to try and find them there. Right before turning, I heard them over on TH 64. It has lots of shrubs and stuff so I was hoping that it would turn out better...it did! :-D Inside of 30 minutes, I had all of the shots I could ever want with and without sun shine, so I just sat back and listened for a while. :-D One thing I noticed was that the call here is different than any of the ones I heard online...which would explain why I could never find them, I was listening for the wrong thing. It was close to the same thing at the beginning of the call, but different at the end. Gotta love it. :-D All together about two dozen carolers. Pics are here: http://sjlarue.smugmug.com/Unsorted/OhioBirds/16108559_K6usy Have a great week! Steve J. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]