May 5 - 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. After 3 days at Shawnee and 2 days at The Wilds, it was great to come home and find such a good selection of nesters at our usual "neighborhood" birding areas. We managed 108 species on this trip, including 21 species of warblers. Hopefully, this next week we'll find some of the ones at Crane Creek we missed. North Park: Green heron - 4 Orchard oriole - 2 pair Baltimore oriole - 2 pair Am. goldfinches Yellow warblers Red-winged blackbirds Willow flycatcher Spotted sandpiper - 4 Canada geese Killdeer Tree, barn, rough-winged, and bank swallows Mallards Field and song sparrows Common yellowthroats Red-bellied woodpecker Brown-headed cowbirds Turkey vulture Great blue herons Am. robins European starlings Northern cardinals Wood ducks Eastern kingbird Indigo buntings For those who have asked and are wondering, we neither saw nor heard any indication of the blue grosbeaks yet. According to our records, they usually show up in early to mid July. Last year, the young fledged on August 12. Main Park: Blue-gray gnatcatchers Indigo buntings Bluejays DC cormorants Baltimore orioles Great blue herons Mallards Canada geese Wood ducks Blue-winged teal House wrens Tufted titmouses Yellow warblers Am. goldfinches Warbling vireo Prothonotary warblers (at the bridge, as always) Carolina chickadees Eastern towhees Yellow-throated vireo White-crowned, song, and house sparrows Gray catbird Common yellowthroats Barn swallows Northern cardinals Red-winged blackbirdssss Am. crows Red-tailed hawk Good birding, Ed and Bev Neubauer Englewood, Ohio Delorme, p. 65, AB 5 ************************************** See what's free at http://www.aol.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]