Hello All:

I spent an hour before work at Greenlawn Cemetery (8-9 am). Pretty slow overall, but at the ravine I heard what I am 90% certain was a KIRTLAND'S WARBLER. The bird was singing from the deep brush at the Ravine just west of the bridge. I never saw the bird, but after listening to recordings of warblers, there doesn't seem to be any other likely candidate. The bird call sounded like a "Ch, Ch, we-e-o -Wee! Wee!" with the "we-e-o" descending slightly and the last two notes rising. Is there any other bird that sounds remotely like this?  I would have stuck around to hunt down the bird but I needed to get to work.

Please be advised that there is a lot of maintenance activity going on at the cemetery right now - there's a large mound of gravel at the east entrance to the ravine and lots of trucks and activity.

Other birds of interest observed:

The pit:
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Ovenbird
Yellow-rumped Warbler
American Redstart
Veery
Swainson's Thrush
Hairy Woodpecker
Wood Duck

Ravine:
Eastern Phoebe
Red-eyed Vireo
Eastern Wood-Pewee

The usual residents were about.

Good Birding,
Andy Sewell
Columbus, Ohio

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