Elmwood Park in Rocky River was very slow today except for one notable exception. At about 4:45 PM, this one tall tree came alive with birds. As you are entering the park, just after the entrance road makes a dip before coming to the ball diamonds, there is a very tall tree on your right with a two foot diameter trunk with deeply furrowed bark. Not sure what kind it is, but it had loads of catkins with red flowers, no leaves out yet. As I was observing the action, lots of kinglets (both kinds) and a few Nashville Warblers, I found an Orange-Crowned Warbler in the same area I observed one yesterday. Could it be the same bird? Some other birds distracted me, and as I tried to relocate the Orange-Crowned, I noticed the underside of a bird with a buff belly and flesh colored legs about 40 to 60 feet up. It then leaned over to feed from a catkin, and I could see the black stripes on the buffy head, a WORM-EATING WARBLER! My first ever in Cuyahoga County and first ever more than ten feet off the ground! I thought they were always ground feeders. Has anyone else ever observed this behavior? I notified Marian and Jeff Kraus, and they observed the bird in the same tree about 6:00 PM. Since I saw the Orange-Crowned two days in a row, I'm thinking there's a chance the Worm-eating might be there tomorrow. Complete Elmwood list: Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Black-capped Chickadee White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Golden-crowned Kinglet Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Hermit Thrush BLUE-WINGED WARBLER ORANGE-CROWNED WARBLER Nashville Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler WORM-EATING WARBLER White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow American Goldfinch And still no Yellow-rumped Warblers. John and Ann Edwards Rocky River Cuyahoga County --------------------------------- Ahhh...imagining that irresistible "new car" smell? Check outnew cars at Yahoo! Autos. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]