I got up very early this morning to join Adrian Johnson at Blair Woods for his quarterly survey there. Since I was up before sunup, I swung by the old tower that has a room now dedicated to the Barn Owls. I had stopped by a couple of times in the evening looking for them and had dipped, probably just because I couldn't stay very long. But I stopped for a few minutes before proceeding to Blair Woods and did see one of the adults fly in. It brings me to 149 in my patch. We got 32 species at Blair Woods. I'll let Adrian do the post to eBirds and publish the list since this is really his regular gig. It started slow but picked up nicely, however. The society's work at Blair Woods is really making it into a pleasant birding stop. Dan Smith dan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx 512-451-2632 http://www.wordsmithofaustin.com Edit your Freelists account settings for TEXBIRDS at //www.freelists.org/list/texbirds Reposting of traffic from TEXBIRDS is prohibited without seeking permission from the List Owner