Late this afternoon, I found two lapland longspurs picking through the manured fields on Hayes Road and Nauvoo, along with a small flock of horned larks and snow buntings. (This is near Middlefield.) Farther along Hayes, near Peters, I saw close to two hundred snow buntings...also beneficiaries of the manure that had been spread on top on the snow. It wasn't a very active time for the hawks of hawk alley, but I did see two or three rough legged hawks and one red tail. Inga Schmidt ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Please consider joining our Society, at www.ohiobirds.org/site/membership.php. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]