Seemed to have fewer birds today, but still an interesting variety.  We began at the road right at the nature center and saw black and white warbler, yellow rumped warbler, nashville, palm warbler along with the summer tanager, male and female rose breasted grosbeaks, and female indigo bunting.   Walking down the sugarbush trail just to the opening with the field that the dog walking trail is in, we saw the magnolia warbler, yellow billed cuckoo, ruby crowned kinglet, black throated green warbler, common yellow throat, and blue headed vireo.   The trail back to the blinds yielded the ovenbird, woodthrush, ruby throated hummingbird, and a empy flycatcher  The yellow breasted chat was singing from across the lake, so of course we could only listen to him, not see him.  On the Brookside trail, near the intersection with the overlook trial, the kentucky warbler, hooded warbler, tennessee warbler scarlet tanager were seen.  The louisiana waterthrush
 was singing nearby, but we did not wait out the bird to see him. 

Blacklick Metro Park  Columbus
yellow rumped,, parula warblers were in the picnic area.   found a fledgling barred owl high in a beech tree. Other birds seen were the woodthrush, red eyed vireo, scarlet tanager, and a gray cheeked thrush. We heard the hooded warbler in a couple of locations, 

Virginia waterleaf, green dragon, wild stonecrop, and running strawberry bush are blooming. 
Bob and Elaine McNulty 


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