7:00 - 8:35 64* at start - 68* at end - winds brisk southwest first impressions were that there were a great many groups of Blue Jays flying north - a total of 85+ were counted. the groups were no smaller than 6 with the largest being 24 most interesting bird today was a Dark-eyed Junco found out on the breakwall other observations were that there were graet numbers of Red-winged Blackbirds American Robins Common Grackles European Starlings the numbers were all over 50 Canada Geese - 20+ (includes goslings) other birds seen were Cedar Waxwings - 8 Brown Thrasher - 4 American Redstart - 8+ Eastern Wood Peewee - 2 Gray Catbird - 10+ Yellow Warbler - 10+ Chimney Swift 6+ House Wren - 4 Eastern Towhee - 3 Northern Cardinal - 4 Song Sparrow - 6 Cliff Swallow - 8 Great Blue Heron - 4 Eastern Kingbird - 2 Great Egret - 1 Killdeer - 2 Warbling Vireo - 1 Hairy Woodpecker - 2 (@ nest) White-breasted Nuthatch - 1 Mallard - 2 buster ______________________________________________________________________ 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]