I'm lousy on songs, but knew I was hearing something unfamiliar in my
wood lot.  First heard two days ago,  this afternoon, just after the
showers stopped
I tracked down the singing male hooded warbler. Forty feet up in the
trees.

This isn't a mature woodland, but, over the last few years, as the
scotch pines collapsed
a fairly decent ground cover of ferns and other woodland plants has
been established.
The woods are a mix of beech, maple, cherry and the planted scotch
pines, and probably
still over 70 acres.

If I get a nesting pair, that will be a first on this property.
Another week till safe dates for OBBA.

Inga Schmidt
Chagrin River Road at the Geauga/Cuyahoga county line

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