Went with Jen Sauter, and Jim McCormac as well as some other folks to Tri-valley Wildlife area near Dresden in Muskingum Co. Yesterday morning. A great day of birding to be sure, things were pretty hopping there. Of special note we found a Blue Grossbeak Pair (1 male 1 fem) along the very same spot they were last summer on Maddison-Hall rd. I think it is. Also in that same spot were two territorial SEDGE WRENS singing oppositionally on either side of the road. This is the same spot I observed them last year on July 25th, but they are not quite in their "safe-date" yet. Also of special note was an ALDER FLYCATCHER we saw and more importantly, heard, in a patch of wet habitat. Other notables listed below: Broad-winged Hawk Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Eastern Wood-Pewee Acadian Flycatcher Alder Flycatcher (Great find, rare in migration, but not breeding at Tri-Valley) Willow Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow House Wren Sedge Wren (Great find, very rare breeder in this part of Ohio and never common anywhere in Ohio. Listed as a Species of Concern in Ohio) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Wood Thrush Blue-winged Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Prairie Warbler - many seen and heard Blackpoll Warbler (migrants still passing through) Cerulean Warbler - can be found in the wooded patches of habitat Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Scarlet Tanager Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak (another great find; these are rare to uncommon at best in Ohio) Indigo Bunting Henslow's Sparrow – very numerous along many of the roads Grasshopper Sparrow – even more than Henslows Savannah Sparrow Swamp Sparrow - found in many of the cattailed areas all 3 mimids Orchard Oriole - dime a dozen as Jim said, they were everywhere Baltimore Oriole - many Pileated Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Red-bellied Wo. Cedar Waxwings - many around everywhere we stopped it seemed, I've been seeing these at home in Del.Co as well and at The BFEC when surveying today, and here I thought I might miss these guys this spring. Happy birding everyone, sorry I can't be more specific with roads we traveled there, but I just don't know them very well, and don't have the time to look them up at the moment! Good Birding, - Ben Warner ________________________________________________________________________ AOL now offers free email to everyone. Find out more about what's free from AOL at AOL.com. =0 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]