Greetings, I saw my first Common Loon of the year yesterday(March 15)on a quarry just northwest of Circleville in Pickaway County. I have been keeping migration records since 1967 and, except for 5 over wintering loons, the previous early dates for migrating loons were March 17 in 1997, 2001, and 2008, and March 18 last year. Jim Fry Hocking County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]