This evening in the late dusk, nearly dark, 6:25 PM, I heard the cry of a killdeer flying above the Flint Ridge upland, at our farm in Hopewell Township, Muskingum County. After they disappear in late fall I don't usually see or hear them here again until late February. So this was something unusual, and slightly out of season. Certainly, the temperatures were unseasonably warm the past couple days, topping out at 63 today. When Jane and I walked up the pasture for our evening walk, just before I heard the killdeer, it was 54 F. Interesting. Bob Evans Geologist, etc. Hopewell Township, Muskingum County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]