Doug, Thanks for this report. However, it would help me if reporters not only gave the ROAD and the COUNTY, but also the nearest town. I didn't know if Eicher Rd was near Brownsville, Sweet Home, or Peoria - until I put it into Google, and they suggested Albany. Then I was able to find where you were talking about. Thanks, Paul Sullivan =========================== Subject: Linn Tricolored Blackbirds Date: Wed Jul 16 2014 9:31 am From: w.douglas.robinson AT gmail.com A female, followed closely, and very surprisingly to me, by 3 well-flighted fledglings still being fed, were at the Eicher Rd quarry this morning. They were moving a lot and foraging along the pond margins as well as in the field east of the lake. Also present were a single Bank Swallow regularly calling among hundreds of Cliff and Tree Swallows, a very dark and large Peregrine Falcon, and a few Least and Western Sandpipers. Doug