Hi all, A trip to Shawnee State Forest - see http://www.ohiobirds.org/birdingsites/showsite.php?Site_ID=16 for more - today yielded some new returnees, at least for me this year. Yellow-throated Warblers are plentiful, and can be expected along all of the streams, as can Louisiana Waterthrushes. Saw my first Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, although only a few, and a Blue-headed Vireo had returned and was singing in an area where they apparently nested last year. Plenty of other signs of spring. The redbuds are in full bloom in many places, along with lots of other flora, and we had nine species of butterflies: Tiger, Spicebush, and Zebra Swallowtails; Henry's Elfin; West Virginia White; Falcate Orangetip; Spring Azure; and Juvenal's and Sleepy Duskywings. Plenty of other interesting things, too, including a whopper of a Timber Rattlesnake. Jim McCormac Columbus, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]