When I arrived home from work yesterday, (April 16) I was greeted by a PRAIRIE WARBLER singing loud and proud in the old field next to my house. He kept it up for over an hour. Sure was a sweet sound after the recent cold weather! Also had a pair of gnatcatchers chasing around and making a lot of fuss. They kept returning to the same group of trees, but I couldn't tell if they were building a nest. Still waiting for the first Wood Thrush song to come from the woods. Won't be long....... Good birding, Tracy Morman Scipio Township, Meigs Co. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]