We visited Ocmulgee National Monument for the first time yesterday, and welcomed various spring migrants back to the state. In addition to the usual unremarkable, if interesting, things (nesting starlings, territorial Carolina wrens, plenty of palm and yellow-rumped warblers, etc.) I saw four species that I'd never seen before: red-headed woodpecker indigo bunting blue grosbeak great crested flycatcher Now I know none of these are exactly rare, but they were still exciting for us. A couple questions about the buntings and grosbeaks: given how many of them we saw yesterday, is it just random dumb luck that we've never seen any in Augusta? Or are they actually more common in Macon? And secondly, do they ever flock together? We saw one flock that was clearly buntings at the monument, and then along the levee across the river we saw several clear grosbeaks as well as a few apparent male buntings and one clear female bunting. It got quite confusing seeing flashes of blue and trying to decide whether we had seen wing bars. Alec Christensen Augusta