This morning, during my (almost) daily 20 minutes yard birding in Athens, I was surprised to see a Merlin perched on a top snag of our Honey Locust. He left when approached by a Blue Jay. Yard bird #88 (since 2010)! Stefan Gleissberg Athens, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]