April 11, 2015, two birds were singing in a pine tree on the woods edge. I finally saw with binoculars a Junco making that peculiar call. This was a time when Pine Warblers were singing and I wrote it down because it was a very different call. The back 2 acres is an old Christmas tree farm, situated on Howland Hill a sandstone ridge- Trumbull County - east of Geauga. Reading the post and listening to the atypical Junco call brought back the encounter with the 2 Juncos in April. Could they have been headed west to Geauga County? My hemlocks are growing nicely and there is also sphagnum moss around but.... Carole Babyak Howland Twp ______________________________________________________________________ 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]