Birded Spring Valley from 5:00 pm to 8:30 pm. 58 species Trip List: Canada Goose Mute Swan Wood Duck Blue-wing Teal Ring-necked Duck (2 males and three females) Pied-billed Grebe (5) American Bittern (1 seen from boardwalk and one heard) Great Blue Heron Green Heron Turkey Vulture Osprey (carrying something but I could not make it out, hopefully nesting material) Red-shouldered Hawk (heard only) Virginia Rail (2 heard) Sora (at least 5) Common Moorhen (1, in the center on a mudflat) American Coot (still several hundred) Killdeer Ring-billed Gull Mourning Dove Barred Owl Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Flicker Eastern Kingbird (3) Yellow-throated Vireo (2) Warbling Vireo (5) Blue Jay Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow C. Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (observed one building nest, last week 12 this week 50+) Wood Thrush (2) American Robin Starling (too many) N. Parula (at least 2 heard) Yellow Warbler (2) Yellow-rumped Warbler (only 2) Yellow-throated Warbler (1) Palm Warbler (20+) Cerulean warbler (1) Prothonotary Warbler (male and female) Common Yellowthroat (2) Eastern Towhee Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow (1 at the beginning of the boardwalk) White-throated Sparrow (only 4) N. Cardinal (found a nest with one egg) Red-winged Blackbird (saw 1 female building nest) Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird A. Goldfinch Good Birding John Habig 261 Lantis Dr. Carlisle, OH 45005 [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]