Mindy and others,

Getting back to your original question, my own suggestion would be to go a week earlier, since the trend of migratory timing has been in that direction during recent times. This is not to say that it doesn't vary. In other words, there have been years when the leaves didn't come out until mid May, others when everything was leafed out by the third week of April.

Seconding the notion that there are countless other places to see warblers, my own little 57 acres of average Appalachian Ohio has yielded 27 species of wood warblers for my yard list, including 9 and possibly 10 breeding species, during the last decade. My farm is by no means any kind of "trap." Keep your eyes open anywhere during migratory season. Birds are where you find them.

Bob Evans
Geologist, etc.
Hopewell Township, Muskingum County

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