Folks who go beyond a tick on their lists for Ohio's second recognized brambling may be interested in some of the articles called up by a search for <brambling records in north america>. This highly migratory Eurasian species actually has at least one North American breeding record--not surprisingly, on Attu. This species is a great flocker, with fall gatherings by the millions at times in Europe; I lived in Ireland for a while, and though I saw many bramblings, nothing like that! Some N Am records have been rejected as wild birds because photographs allegedly showed cage wear on the feathers; this scruple is a bugbear of records committees. The origin of bramblings is most often attributed to Asian sites, but Ohio is a lot closer to Ireland than to Attu! Bill Whan ______________________________________________________________________ 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]