Happy summer birding everyone, This Saturday, July 14th, at 8:00 am Gabe Leidy will lead a Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society (WCAS) hike at Whipps Ledges in the Hinckley Reservation (Cleveland Metroparks). Hinckley is an amazing beautiful place. A Scarlet Tanager is an easy find from the parking lot and last year there was a nesting Magnolia Warbler found on the trail around the ledges. See this website for a map: http://www.wcasohio.org/Field_Trips.htm WCAS is doing a Important Bird Area survey of the Rocky River area. Field training for the vegetation survey will be on Sunday, July 15, at 2:00 at The Chalet. We need volunteers who enjoy getting off trail, plant knowledge is helpful, but not required. See this webpage for more information: http://www.wcasohio.org/vegetation_survey_2007.htm Also, there is a Nighthawk consistently over Berea in the evening and some mornings. I last saw him on Tuesday about 5:00 pm flying very high without making a sound. Where they are nesting is unknown, but it may be in downtown Berea. Peace, Terri Cleveland Museum of Natural History www.cmnh.org Western Cuyahoga Audubon Society www.wcasohio.org ______________________________________________________________________ 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]