At 3:00 today (6/19), I got a glimpse and a shot of the Cassin's
Sparrow....then I did something STUPID...I was chimping the shots to see
if they were sharp(google chimping if you need a definition...:-D,) and
lost the sparrow...when am I going to learn! :-D

Local traffic picked up, and a redtail hawk was in the area, so I went
lock hunting for a while. Down in the wooded area of the locks, I heard
two Parulas and a couple of other Warbler sounding birds. I was more
interested in the damselflies than birding :-D

  I came back an hour or so later, and thought that I had seen it
again...but it turned out to be a Vesper Sparrow...But hey, I didn't
have that one either, so that is two lifers in one day.  Grasshopper
Sparrows were everywhere as well.  I did hear and spot the Cassin's a
little later singing on the telephone wires, but there was too much
traffic to get anymore shots, so I left it for someone else and headed
home.

On the way, I checked out the Lockwood Dam area and got a couple of
dragonflies that I hadn't gotten yet. A few field sparrows and
flycatchers were flittering about as well.

  As I continued home, I was checking in with my wife on the phone and
suddenly this orange streak swooped down at my car and then veered
off...a Baltimore Oriole! For the second time this year,  I thought that
someone was throwing an orange at me!  :-D

Well that's it.

Pics are here:
http://sjlarue.smugmug.com/Unsorted/OhioBirds/16108559_K6usy


Have a Happy Father's Day weekend!

Steve J.

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