Lots to see on Saturday while out with a brand new birder (I only have 3 years in myself).  Two lifers for me --

  Common loon (I thought they had left -- WRONG; even heard their lonesome call)
  American coot (drastically lower numbers)
  Great Egret
  Great Blue Heron
  Baltimore Oriole (abundant)
  Orchard Oriole
  BLUE-WINGED WARBLER (lifer for me)
  Blackburnian warbler
  Black and white warbler
  Yellow rumped warbler
  Yellow warbler
  Northern Parula
  SWAINSON'S THRUSH (lifer for me)
  Wood Thrush
  Eastern Kingbird
  Eastern Phoebe
  Great Crested Flycatcher
  Blue Gray Gnatcatcher
  Ruby Crowned Kinglet (numbers down from previous week)
  House Wren (quite a few)
  White throated sparrow (down from last week)
  Eastern Towhee (quite a few)

  And the usuals, many twitterpated and nesting.

  The blue-winged warbler was seen off the Buckeye Trail that goes into the woods off Dike Road in the no vehicle access area.

  Denise in Akron





"Look at the birds..."  Matthew 6:26

    I look at the birds because I believe they will carry the messages of my heart upward to our Creator.   I look at them because I believe in their existence, the way their songs begin and end each day–the invocations and the benedictions to God Himself.  I look to the birds because they remind me of what I love rather than what I fear.  And that God's eye is on the sparrow, and I know He watches me!



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