Near my hometown in the Black Forest in SW Germany, there was a Brambling irruption this past winter, with estimated millions of birds. I wasn’t there, but there are impressive youtube videos, with ‘murmurations’: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4lNPzuR2EI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqTrCP0xel0 Stefan Gleissberg Athens, OH == On Jan 3, 2016, at 9:41 AM, Bill Whan <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > 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] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]