Sorry for the late post on this one but on Friday, 4/20, along with the more common complement of birds, I observed a swamp sparrow at Rutherford wetland. Rutherford wetland is located in Hocking Co. about 1 mile west of Carbon Hill (State Route 278). Delorme 69 D 7 (right in the very right hand bottom corner of page - look for Chesapeake and Ohio railroad label. The wetland is exactly where the word Ohio is). Yesterday, 4/23, while out and about on the Marietta Unit of the Wayne. Two female hooded mergansers where swimming in the Little Muskingum River, Monroe County (Stonehouse Road), near Holmes wetland (a manmade constructed wetland). Delorme 72 C 2.5 also Two great egrets were in a wetland (that seems to have appeared in the last year or so) along the north side of State Route 7 (across from Eragon Trucking) in Washington County, approx. 3/4 to 1 mile east of the Willow Island Dam. Lynda Andrews Wildlife Biologist Wayne National Forest 740/753-0550 voice 740/753-0118 fax "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter" Martin Luther King, Jr. ______________________________________________________________________ Ohio-birds mailing list, a service of the Ohio Ornithological Society. Our thanks to Miami University for hosting this mailing list. Additional discussions can be found in our forums, at www.ohiobirds.org/forum/. 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]