I went down to Tusc Co. to see if the blue grosbeak could be found in the standard place on Leihley Hill Rd.about 3 miles north of Sugar Creek. This is west of 93 and just east of the Holmes Co. line. I found the bird in some trees in a field on the west side of the road just south of the intersection of Leihley Hill Rd. and Stingy Lane. I was there about 8am and the the grosbeak was singing. There were also several grasshopper sparrows singing in the field. I then checked for lark sparrows in the log yard further north up Stingy Lane, where I had seen them in the past, but did not find any. Randy Rowe, Wooster ______________________________________________________________________ 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]