Three Fish Crows were hanging around in the boat launch at Gordon Park in Cleveland this morning. I observed one for a while and heard it vocalize, then it was joined by two more birds. Eventually all three flew away as two American Crows approached them, so I had a good opportunity to compare sizes and calls. The calls are here (fairly bad audio): https://soundcloud.com/ornitholoco/fish-crows-14-may-2013-at The eBird checklist, with the fairly bad images I posted to flickr, is here: http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S14108858 Surely these birds are nesting nearby... Otherwise, the birding was fairly quiet in Cleveland Lakefront Nature Preserve; it was very windy there. I had more species of warbler in my Cleveland Heights yard in ten minutes of birding than I did at CLNP. Andy -- Andy Jones, Ph.D. Director of Science William A. and Nancy R. Klamm Endowed Chair of Ornithology and Head of Department of Ornithology Cleveland Museum of Natural History 1 Wade Oval Drive, University Circle Cleveland, OH 44106 http://www.cmnh.org/Ornithology.aspx Photography: http://www.flickr.com/photos/ornitholoco ______________________________________________________________________ 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]