Just returned from a couple of days at Magee Marsh and surrounding areas; as others have reported, birding yesterday (Wednesday) was wonderful, with warblers galore; today (Thursday) was pretty decent by most standards, though slower than the previous day. I do want to mention, though, one thing that I found truly amazing: the flight of Blue Jays. Yeah, I'm as happy to run up the list of species as anyone else, so seeing lots of different warblers, vireos, and other long-distance migrants is fun and exciting. But the continual flight of thousands upon thousands of Blue Jays overhead truly constituted a spectacle. I really have no idea how many Jays came into and over Magee, but even a few casual glances in the morning quickly had my personal total into many hundreds, and the birds just kept coming: twenty, thirty, fifty at a time, over and over again. After a hundred or two or three there would be a pause, then just when I thought that might be it, another flock -- and another and another -- would come along. Sometimes it's those little, taken-for-granted happenings that, in their own way, are most impressive. -- Bill Heck ______________________________________________________________________ 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]