This morning I was walking in the creek valley at West Creek Reservation (city of Parma in Cuyahoga County). There were four rose-breasted grossbeaks (1 male, 1 female and 2 immature birds) along the trail just south of the Quarry Creek Bridge (just south of the big field) finding something to eat in a sassafras tree. The same trail had a family of house wrens feeding their young. There was one young blue jay squealing and chasing two adults. A group of young titmice were trying to get food from some adult birds foraging in the trees. A red-tailed hawk was eyeing a fox squirrel in the tree next to it. The squirrel was fully aware of the hawk. It probably didn't end up as the hawk's breakfast. Last week I saw four scarlet tanagers in this same area consisting of 1 male and possibly 1 female and 2 immature birds. Is there a way to distinguish immature tanagers from females? The three field guides I consults didn't have much difference. A couple of weeks ago I saw some orchard orioles feeding youngsters in this area. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]