I made a little detour today to see if the merlins were back at Highland Park Cemetery this year. I found one, in approximately the same spot as usual, back by the oil or gas wells. It was perched at the top of a tree on the golf course, but easily viewed from the cemetery side were I was driving around. Otherwise, except for what looked like a pair of red tails, perched near each other, it was very still there mid day. Blue jays, a pair of nuthatches and not much else. (Highland Park Cemetery is in Highland Hills.) 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.miamioh.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]