getting late, and have to get off this computer, so ...

  late afternoon yesterday had Yellow-throated Warblers
  (one each) in Scioto (Pond Lick Rd. in Shawnee SF)
  and Adams Co. (along Ohio Brush Creek).

  This morning there were few more in Lawrence County

  Lake Vesuvius - 5
  Hanging Rock ORV Park - 8

  with the northernmost on the day at Tycoon Lake W.A.
  in northern Gallia County.

  Otherwise, fairly typical list for late March.

  Hanging Rock was also good for a Ruffed Grouse
  strutting in the middle of the road (blurry photo
  through windshield just to say I photographed
  one in OH). Had 9 Pine Warblers there.
  Found a Blue-headed Vireo in song, only to
  discover he was actively engaged in metronomic*
  pre-copulatory display with another Blue-headed
  Vireo.

  I have never seen this before in the Blue-headed
  Vireo, where the male rocks his head (and later
  with more vigor his entire body) back and forth
  in the manner of a metronome. First described
  in the Bell's Vireo by Barlow (probably online
  - google Metronome Display in Bell's Vireo).
  And described fully by myself in 1988 with the
  Black-capped Vireo.

  Pileated Woodpeckers were numerous on the day.
  Had all the woodpeckers, with a Red-headed
  Woodpecker found near the hamlet of Vinton
  (in Gallia Co.) while photographing dragonflies.
  Failed to capture (digilly) the Green Darner pair egg-laying
  but shot some Ischnura ... Fortail spp.

  Fueling up in Oak Hill I was treated to a well-rounded
  mockingbird that went straight from a nice rendition of
  Great Crested Flycatcher to a passable Virginia Rail.

  Canada Geese were on nests at various roadside
  wetlands, of which there are a remarkable number
  in Lawrence County. Tree Swallows were in and around
  most ... the species was poorly documented in the
  south during the first OBBA.

  Found my 2nd site for Mistletoe in northern Gallia
  County ... not the northernmost in OH but I still
  am surprised when I find it.

  Not good with butterflies ... some yellowish swallowtail
  was uncommon but widespread. Have a photo if
  that proves unusual. Something else like a Hairstreak
  was locally common.

  and despite being seen elsewhere nary a Louisiana
Waterthrush .. and I must have traced 150 miles
  or streams today.

  cheers

  Vic Fazio
  Tiffin, OH

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