Folks, It occurs to me that the east side of Cleveland may be particularly attractive real estate for exploring Fish Crow because the American Crow population in this area has never fully recovered from the 2002 outbreak of West Nile virus. The Cleveland area was particularly hard hit by the virus (in both avian and human terms), and my sense is that the outbreak was particularly severe in the inner ring eastern suburbs (including Cleveland Heights, Shaker Heights, and University Heights), although there aren't any hard data to support this theory. The American Crow population in the Cleveland area has been very slow to recover, and American Crows are only this spring and summer again becoming a regular sight here. I once again see one or two in a couple of hours of birding, which is still nothing like the pre-WNV population. (See my article in the Spring and Summer 2009 /Ohio Cardinal/ if you are burning with curiosity about the impact of West Nile virus in Ohio.) Laura Gooch ______________________________________________________________________ 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]