APRIL 2011 UPDATE:  On 30 April we reached 201 Franklin County species, 
with five more thus far in May, for a 2011 total of 206 (in 121 days). 
We are doing very well. With 34 warbler species in the bag, now we 
especially need birds of wetlands, fields and grasslands, habitats 
getting scarcer as we pave the county. Many of the unrecorded species 
are less likely until fall, but new species we can reasonably expect to 
see in May remain: bobwhite, least bittern, snowy and cattle egrets, 
little blue heron, maybe king rail, golden and semipalmated plovers, 
avocet, willet, whimbrel, marbled godwit, semipalmated sandpiper, 
white-rumped sandpiper, short-billed dowitcher (other shorebirds more 
likely in fall), laughing/Franklin’s gulls, black/common terns, 
yellow-billed cuckoo (what’s up?), olive-sided and the two remaining 
Empidonax flycatchers, Bell’s and Philadelphia vireos, sedge and marsh 
wrens, gray-cheeked thrush, Connecticut & mourning warblers, Lincoln’s 
sparrow, dickcissel, and bobolink. Note that observers are unlikely to 
encounter many of these species in the haunts of wood-warblers, so get 
out and get some sun...if you can find any.

       Total #s-- Jan: 102,  Feb: 6,  Mar: 19,  Apr: 74,  May 5

An almost up-to-date list (it grows daily) is posted on the Columbus 
Audubon site at 
http://www.columbusaudubon.org/production/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=675&Itemid=216

Thanks to all who've helped,
Bill Whan
Columbus

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