Six Eastern Bluebirds must have sensed the approaching cold snowy weather that hit NW Ohio after midnight! While eating dinner last evening around 5:30 p.m., we observed 6 bluebirds flying back and forth from a maple tree to an elm tree and occasionally drinking from the nearby heated birdbath. By 6:00 p.m., 5 of these birds had entered a nest box that we keep up all winter for shelter and around 6:30 the sixth bluebird entered the nest box. At 8:00 am this morning, we observed the gradual departure of 5 birds. #6 must have departed earlier. We witnessed this same situation last winter for several weeks involving 7 bluebirds. For several years, they came each evening around the same time and left in the morning. Lois and Vic Harder NW Ohio - Ottawa County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]