*April 21*
red-throated loon (as reported by others) gave excellent brief views
(submerged 95% of the time) at the reservoir at Firestone Golf Course, NE
corner of Warner and Harrington (short term parking on gravel drive off
Warner).  Firestone Park afforded chickadees coming to a hand bearing seed,
and a downy walking up to our feet for fallen seed.

Summit Lake hopping with loons, ruddys, red-br mergs, coot, scaup,
buffehead, one shoveler.  Long Lake had 2 Caspian terns, mute swan, summer
plumage Bonaparte's gull.

*Today*
flock of pine warblers, several palm warblers, numerous Myrtles, one yellow
warbler, solitary sandpiper,  both kinglets (twp competing ruby-crowneds
flashing full heads of red), and brief look at a Virgiia rail at the Beaver
marsh, Ira Rd, CVNP.  also 2 enormous snapping turtles, one in the rail
habitat.

______________________________________________________________________

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]