There was an osprey at Pickerington Ponds Metro Park in southeastern Franklin County this afternoon(Thursday, March 14). I saw it perched in a tree close to the nesting platform north of Wright Road and west of Bowen Road. While I was watching the osprey, two sandhill cranes flew over Bowen Road and appeared to land at the east end of Ellis Pond south of Wright Road and east of Bowen Road. Later I saw the cranes in the water at the east end of Ellis Pond. The color on both cranes was brown. Jim Fry Hocking County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]