After 5 unsuccessful attempts to find them this year, White-winged
Crossbills finally graced me with their presence at the Green Lawn Cemetery
area 77 sweetgum trees. They arrived about 10:40am, posed for photos, and
were still there feeding when I left around 11:30. Also in the cemetery:
Pine Siskins, Merlin, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, gobs of Red-breasted
Nuthatches and a lone Myrtle's Yellow-rumped Warbler (area W in the NW
corner of the cemetery). A complete checklist from Green Lawn is at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12619674. I'll embed a few
photos in that checklist later tonight.

Just before lunch, the lower Scioto Audubon Metro Park held one Bill Whan
(my FOY sighting!) and a good number of Ring-billed gulls and about a dozen
Herring Gulls (1st - adult basic plumages) resting on the water out from
the boat launch (see map and full checklist at
http://ebird.org/ebird/view/checklist?subID=S12620472). This could be a
great place to look for black-backed and white-winged gulls mid- to
late-afternoon, given that a decent number of Herring Gulls were around.

Lastly, while driving across campus around 2pm, there were 2 Black-crowned
Night Herons just upstream of the "old" roost site across from the Drake
Student Center.
Good birding,
Paul Hurtado

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