This morning, I stopped at the new city cemetery on Green Road, Cleveland Memorial gardens, a wasteland of mowed grass and unaccountably wide paved roads, with the glass walled PNC Bank on one side. Sometimes large flocks of killdeer find it attractive, but the usual inhabitants are c. geese and starlings. But today, a tiny "wetland" too steep for the mowers held a surprising two wilson's snipe. I watched then from the car, just fifteen feet away. I was so taken by the idea of snipe finding this tiny refuge that I stopped again on the way home this afternoon and found them still there. Continuing along my route to Cleve. Hts. I passed Tower East, and while at the red light saw a peregrine falcon perched on some pointy object on the top layer of the tower, so, instead of obstructing traffic, I pulled into the parking lot and was rewarded by finding two peregrines. They flew around the tower together a few times and one settled back on the roof, and the other disappeared from view. Arriving at my Cleveland Hts. house I kept hearing the call of red breasted nuthatches. There are three huge spruce trees around the houses, and in each I could find one or two nuthatches hanging from cones, pecking away to extract seeds. You could actually see some part of the pine cones fluttering to the ground. They were around all day. Also two hermit thrushes in the dogwood, a couple of white throated sparrows and juncos in the yard. 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]