Took a drive through the cemetery this afternoon, quiet and undisturbed in the cool drizzle. Over forty chipping sparrows were hopping around the markers for the veterans graves and two vocal red breasted nuthatches were visible in the large spruces in that section. From the road by the golf course I noticed one merlin perched in a leafless tree, and as I started driving past, it flew, accompanied by another merlin. One peregrine was on the usual perch on Tower East. Inga Schmidt ______________________________________________________________________ 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]