Shawnee State Forest: April 12, 8am-4pm Birding without my camera - birds of note 2 Broad-winged Hawks hunting next to the rd, 3 Great Egrets in a flooded field near Portsmouth, Oh 2 Wild Turkeys 3 Pileated Woopeckers 2 Sapsuckers nearly two dozen Gnatcatchers both on the ridges and bottom-lands 6 Louisiana Waterthrushes 8 Black-and-white Warblers 3 Pine Warblers 1 Hooded Warbler singing along one of the ridge tops along rt 9 only for a few minutes before moving on. Also several Brown Thrashers, loads of Towhees, and typical numbers of more common birds. -Matthew Studebaker --------------------------------- 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]