Spent about 90 minutes at Crooked Run Nature Preserve on the Ohio River (SW Clermont County) this morning. Once I got out of earshot of the Cub Scouts who were camping in the park next to the preserve, it was a beautiful morning. Although I accidentally flushed 2 sets of ducks without IDing them, I had some good birding - a "3 woodpecker day." A Great Blue Heron was first heard, then seen, over the estuary. White-throated Sparrows were everywhere, responding to pishing and singing everything from a full chorus of "Poor Sam Peadbody" to a "chip" note that had a cardinal flavor. A single Eastern Bluebird was perched high above the meadow, and Tufted Titmice and Eastern Towhees were heard, not seen. Great Blue Heron Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Blue Jay American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse (H) White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren Golden-crowned Kinglet Eastern Bluebird American Robin Northern Mockingbird Yellow-rumped Warbler Eastern Towhee (H) White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Along the roads, I saw 3 American Kestrels, many Blue Jays and Crows, and one Red-tailed Hawk on the ground at the edge of the road, eating something. Back home, in Felicity (5 miles north of Crooked Run), I had the following feeder birds today: Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Blue Jay Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch (M&F) Carolina Wren Eastern Bluebird (M&F) Northern Mockingbird European Starling Song Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow ~Kathi Kathi Hutton Felicity, Clermont Co. Delorme pg 82, B3 Lat. 38.828, Lon. -84.063 ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. You can join or leave the list, or change your options, at: http://listserv.muohio.edu/scripts/wa.exe?LIST=OHIO-BIRDS Send questions or comments about the list to: [log in to unmask]