I had a group of 300 Brown-headed cowbirds, Grackles, Red-winged blackbirds, and Rusty blackbirds today in my yard and the surrounding woods and field. With the fly-by Crows, it was blackbirds a plenty in rural Wyandot County today. It made for great blackbird study for my kids. It was a perfect mix of males, females and the four species at close range. Eric Mullholand Carey, Ohio NWO ______________________________________________________________________ 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]