Birds seen yesterday follow. (I work very hard to see the birds at Shawnee. They hide well there!). Caps indicate my first-time-this-spring sightings. Canada Goose Mallard Great Blue Heron (flyover) Turkey Vulture Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Winter Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher American Robin GRAY CATBIRD Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER Pine Warbler CERULEAN WARBLER BLACK-AND-WHITE WARBLER AMERICAN REDSTART WORM-EATING WARBLER, males competing and flying close OVENBIRD LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH COMMON YELLOWTHROAT HOODED WARBLER YELLOW-BREASTED CHAT SCARLET TANAGER, 3 Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Dark-eyed Junco Northern Cardinal INDIGO BUNTING Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch Most all the birds sang all day. I heard the songs everywhere. Seeing the birds was another story. They hide well at Shawnee. I only actually saw one or a few of each species. Four warblers I heard but never did see were: Blue-winged, Northern Parula, Magnolia, and Prairie) A trip to the end of Moore's Lane (east of the forest) yielded additional sightings: Killdeer Greater Yellowlegs Lesser Yellowlegs Solitary Sandpiper Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark A stop by the Pickerington Airport yielded one of their special striped squirrels. A loop to the west and then back east on the next road to the north yielded: Blue-winged Teal Hooded Merganser American Coot Wilson's Snipe Rock Dove Horned Lark AMERICAN PIPIT Brown-headed Cowbird __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]