Birders (and any of your friends) The best evening event is happening now. Turn off all of your electronic equipment. Take your face and go out to a woodcock "dance" site. Take a chair, maybe something to snack on. Set yourself up so you can look west at the sunset. You will bear witness to the original "twitter". Strongsville/Middleburg Hts. border, Main Street parking lot by the ball diamond and railroad tracks. Set up a chair in the driveway of the electric substation across from the parking lot. At least 4 woodcock were out last evening (3/13) and several others were flying in . possibly the ladies? You could see them clearly as they took off against the evening sky, circled and chirped. I was entertained until it got dark (yes there were several drivers passing by that may have thought I was nuts . who cares). Other birds last evening: Killdeer Wood duck American Robin Lots of Common Grackles and Red-winged Blackbirds heading north Song Sparrow Nancy Howell The Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1 Wade Oval Dr., University Circle Cleveland, OH 44106-1767 [log in to unmask] phone 216.231.4600 ext. 3225 education fax 216.231.9960 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]