This morning's Early Morning Discovery Hike at Darke County Parks' Shawnee
Prairie Preserve was quite a nice walk.  Lots of spring migrants were
present giving many in the group their first looks at some of these amazing
warblers!  The yellow-throated vireo was singing directly above our heads,
so everyone got a nice long look at him, which was quite stunning!
 The Blackburnian was, as to be expected, at the very top of the large oaks,
and while most in the group got a nice look, we also got a bit of warbler
neck!

Hope everyone is enjoying their spring!  If you happen to be in the Darke
County area on an early Tuesday morning, swing by the Nature Center for our
hikes at 8am.

Good birding!

Location:     DCP - Shawnee Prairie Preserve
Observation date:     5/20/08
Number of species= 42
x=heard only or many around

Canada Goose     X
Mallard     X
Great Blue Heron     X
Cooper's Hawk     1
Red-tailed Hawk     X
Chimney Swift     X
Ruby-throated Hummingbird     1
Red-bellied Woodpecker     X
Downy Woodpecker     X
Northern Flicker     X
Yellow-throated Vireo     1
Red-eyed Vireo     X
Blue Jay     X
Tree Swallow     X
Carolina Chickadee     X
Tufted Titmouse     1
White-breasted Nuthatch     X
Carolina Wren     X
Eastern Bluebird     X
Swainson's Thrush     1
American Robin     X
Gray Catbird     X
Brown Thrasher     1
European Starling     X
Nashville Warbler     1
Chestnut-sided Warbler     X
Magnolia Warbler     X
Cape May Warbler     1
Black-throated Green Warbler     X
Blackburnian Warbler     1
American Redstart     X
Common Yellowthroat     X
Chipping Sparrow     X
Field Sparrow     X
Song Sparrow     X
Northern Cardinal     X
Indigo Bunting     X
Red-winged Blackbird     X
Common Grackle     X
Baltimore Oriole     X
American Goldfinch     X
House Sparrow     X

This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org)

--
Robb Clifford
- Naturalist -

Darke County Parks
www.darkecountyparks.org

"We need another and a wiser, and perhaps a more mystical concept of
animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice,
man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge
and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We
patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having
taken a form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err.
For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more
complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions
of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall
never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other
nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners
of the splendor and travail of the earth."
-Outermost House by Henry Beston-

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