I am posting the following report on behalf of my son, Jack Stenger. _____________________________________ I spent this morning birding Delaware State Park, Delaware Wildlife Area, and surrounding roads. Delaware SP is located 4 miles north of Delaware, OH in Delaware County. There was a lot of warbler activity, but not much diversity. Best birds were 5 male BOBOLINKS setting up territory in Area G of Delaware WA. There was also one singing GRASSHOPPER SPARROW, along with a Vesper Sparrow on Dildine Rd west of its intersection with 203. Some of the birds observed: 13 Double-crested Cormorant 5 Great Egret 2 Osprey (at Leonardsburg Rd nest) 2 Bald Eagle 1 American Kestrel 10 Killdeer (5 fledglings) 2 Greater Yellowlegs 7 Lesser Yellowlegs 4 Solitary Sandpipers 1 Spotted Sandpiper 2+ Red-headed Woodpeckers 2 Eastern Phoebe 1 Great-crested Flycatcher 8 Eastern Kingbird 11 White-eyed Vireo 2 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Blue-headed Vireo 5 Red-eyed Vireo 9 Warbling Vireo 5 Horned Lark 25 Purple Martin 1 MARSH WREN (present in Delaware WA on 4/31) 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 15 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 7 Wood Thrush 7 Blue-winged Warbler 1 Tennessee Warbler 19 Nashville Warbler 30+Yellow Warbler 12 Yellow-rumped Warbler 9 Black-throated Green Warbler 2 Palm Warbler 2 Black-and-white Warbler 1 Prothonotary Warbler 6 Common Yellowthroat 1 Scarlet Tanager 2 Vesper Sparrows (fields outside of WA) 5 Savannah Sparrow 1 GRASSHOPPER SPARROW (west of Delaware State Park on Dildine Rd, west of 203) 1 Rose-breasted Grosbeak 1 Indigo Bunting 5 BOBOLINK (all males on territory - north unit of Delaware WA) 2 Orchard Oriole 10 Baltimore Oriole Jack Stenger Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]