I got home from work tonight and took the dog on a walk. As I was walking down the driveway I heard a hermit thrush giving a scolding call. I looked up and saw it in a large spruce along with chickadees, titmice and other birds. Thinking there was an owl present I grabbed my binoculars and found a long-eared owl sitting near the top of the tree in a dense cluster of branches. I was pretty excited about picking up a hermit thrush, the owl made me forget it. John Pogacnik ______________________________________________________________________ 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]