This morning, in my own yard, grackles, redwinged blackbirds and a sole cowbird showed up. When I went to Frohring this afternoon I found three rusties. (Small contribution to the rusty blackbird blitz.) They were pecking around in the still largely frozen marsh area. In the meadows, killdeer, 5 meadowlarks, two horned larks and a small flock of am. pipits. Looking for a place to land, and giving up after making a few passes, 6 pintails and two mallards. Quite a few Turkey Vultures in the air, and a red tailed hawk carrying a long twig to it’s nest site. Several pairs of blue birds were checking out the boxes. Dick Hoopes was with me for most of my walk, but he arrived after I saw the pipits we didn’t relocate them. I think they had lifted up and flown off over the trees. 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]