On Sat Feb 28 I heard and saw the first grackles of the year, in the same treetop across the street from my house in Fairlawn where they always show up first. I have recorded the dates for this event as 2/25/13 2/5/12 2/5/11 2/21/10 3/4/08 2/24/07 Dr. Bob Barrett Department of Geosciences at University of Akron Teaching Spring Semester 2015: World Civilizations: Latin America Environmental Studies Seminar: US Public Lands ______________________________________________________________________ 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]