I was walking along Big Creek at Lake Metroparks Girdled Road Reservation in Concord Township this morning. I noticed a small bird picking at something in the mud along the creek and it was a male red crossbill. It flew up into a small tree where it joined two other crossbills. the other two looked like females. The birds flew off to the south calling quite a bit. there are a lot of hemlocks and white pine in that area but none have many cones. Kind of a surprise for August. The birds were found at the very north end of the park. 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]