We had at least 8 rusty blackbirds in the field and in our tree line behind our house (a benefit of having a soggy, leafy natural area) They shared the field with a large number of robins, red winged blackbirds, starlings and flickers. We have also observed a pair of red shouldered hawks calling and circling above our subdivision for several days now. Mostly along Venetian Way or Riva Ridge Blvd. Bob and Elaine McNulty ______________________________________________________________________ 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]