I birded Shawnee from noon yesterday to noon today (and a quick turn down Moore's Lane). I birded three loops: US52 to SR125 to T102 to Odell Creek SF14 to SF1 back to US52 from noon to 5pm yesterday; US52 to Nace Run SF2 to SF13 to Pond Run SF1 back to US52 from 6pm to 8pm yesterday; US52 to Pond Run SF1 to Pond Lick Run SF2 to Upper Twin Creek C96 to US52 from 7am to noon today. Don't try to bird this area without a map!
Birding started slowly (due to the time of day), but got increasingly better. I even had a life bird: Ruffed Grouse, which I had asked about on OhioBirds. At McBride Lake on Pond Run, two beavers were swimming around--another first in my life to see.
My complete list of birds seen follows (heard many more than I saw), with first-of-season birds (for me) in caps:
Great Blue Heron
Turkey Vulture
Canada Goose
Mallard
Blue-Winged Teal
BROAD-WINGED HAWK
RUFFED GROUSE (Lifer)(nice, long look as it froze crossing road)
American Coot
Killdeer
Spotted Sandpiper
Ring-billed Gull
Mourning Dove
RUBY-THROATED HUMMINGBIRD
RED-HEADED WOODPECKER
Red-bellied Woodpecker
Downy Woodpecker
Northern Flicker
Eastern Phoebe
Eastern Kingbird
White-eyed Vireo
Blue-headed Vireo
RED-EYED VIREO
Blue Jay
American Crow
Horned Lark
Tree Swallow
Barn Swallow
Carolina Chickadee
Tufted Titmouse
Whie-breasted Nuthatch
Carolina Wren
Ruby-crowned Kinglet
Blue-gray Gnatcatcher
Eastern Bluebird
Wood Thrush (watched it sing, and spar with another)
American Robin
Gray Catbird
Northern Mockingbird
Brown Thrasher
European Starling
BLUE-WINGED WARBLER, 5+
TENNESSEE WARBLER, 1
NASHVILLE WARBLER, 2
Yellow Warbler, 3
CHESTNUT-SIDED WARBLER, 2
Yellow-rumped Warbler, lots
Black-throated Green Warbler, 3
Blackburnian Warbler, 2
YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER, 2
Pine Warbler, 1
PRAIRIE WARBLER, 2
CERULEAN WARBLER, 1
Black-and-White Warbler, 3
AMERICAN REDSTART, 2m/1f
WORM-EATING WARBLER, 1
Ovenbird, 1
LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, 1
Hooded Warbler, 2
YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT, 3 (cavorting/singing all around me)
Scarlet Tanager, 5m/2f
Northern Cardinal
Rose-breasted Grosbeak, 1m/2f
Indigo Bunting
Eastern Towhee
Chipping Sparrow
Song Sparrow
White-throated Sparrow
Red-winged Blackbird
Common Grackle
Brown-headed Cowbird
BALTIMORE ORIOLE, 2
American Goldfinch
House Sparrow
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