Howdy. John Habig, Glen Crippen and I went out for a big day Saturday, starting at midnight. We pretty much stuck to the Northwest Corner of the state above Columbus. That was good in some ways but not great for getting big numbers since there were hardly any Warblers up there at Magee etc. Oh well we still had a good time and good birds. Our total number of Warblers was only like 15 sp., we missed so many that I had just seen the day before, couldn't even find a Black-throated Green. We just barely missed Lincoln's Sparrow at Magee so that put us at a grand total of 13 Sparrows. First DICKCISSEL of the year. Our Total for the day was 141 species heard or seen. Here is my list of highlights: King Rail - 2 at Springville Marsh, along with soras and Virginias Screech Owl - 2 at Springville, 1 at Irwin Prairie, 1 at Magee Great Horned Owl - 1 owlet at MBSP 3 terns except for Black Tern 3 mimids Bank Swallow - a couple seen at MBSP Glossy Ibis - 1 seen at Metzger Ruddy Turnstone - 2 at Metzger Snowy Egret - 1 at Metzger We had all the thrushes BUT Swainson's, ahh, and I had just seen a bunch at Hoover the day before Gray-cheeked Thrush was seen at MBSP Lark Sparrow - Oak openings Clay-colored Sparrow - 1 at Crane-creek/Magee DICKCISSEL - 2 seen at Longbrake's Wetlands Henslow's Sparrow - 1 at Longbrake's Grasshopper Sparrow - 2 at longbrake's Vesper Sparrow - several singing and great looks at a couple at Longbrake's American Golden Plover - 50+ seen in full breeding colors at Longbrake's Common Loon - 4 seen at Hoover Blackpoll Warbler - 1 male seen at Oxbow of Hoover Common Nighthawk - 2 heard in parking lot of Highbanks, our last bird for the 21 hours we were out. Good times, and Good Birding, - Ben Warner ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at 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]