I had some good luck yesterday hearing birds while not really birding. Around 5:00 AM, before dawn, a barred owl called withing earshot of my home in Poland Twp. At the other end of the day, I heard a common nighthawk at dusk in Lowellville. Also, a few days ago I heard two barred owls calling from Gray's Run while at the Lowellville Cemetary. It was only 4:00 PM at the time, nowhere near dark outside. Maybe barred owls are gearing up for a second nesting - do they try to raise more than one brood? Craig H. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]