Lots of babies and a new batch of nesters in my odd-wooded lot in Gates Mills... A nice new addition is my first summer sighting of a male and female Rose-breasted Grosbeaks. Second group of Juncos visiting feeders this week. Fledglings are everywhere - Juncos, RWBB (with not great habitat for them - but lots of food), 2nd batch of Bluebirds (the second brood was housed in the woods, not in any of the 3 houses used in the spring), Hairy, Downy and RBWoodpeckers are showing up and its entertaining to watch them trying to figure out how to hang on and grab seeds from the tube feeder rather than the suet (mostly), the adult Bluebirds also spend a surprising amount of time on the tube feeder. Still waiting on the Turkey hens and poults to show up... Toms are making appearances, but babies and moms are absent... I will be sneaking away to my beloved Conneaut Sandspit this week to see what has/is happening to a GREAT birding place... Peace + Resist... Buster ______________________________________________________________________ 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]