Hello! Nothing special to report but during a hike this evening along the pet trail at Highbanks in southern Delaware County, I saw and/or heard the following notable birds: White-Throated Sparrow-several, first of the fall season Black-Throated Blue Warbler American Redstart-4 Black-Throated Green Warbler-2 Magnolia Warbler-5 Swainson's Thrush-2 Eastern Phoebe-2 Yellow-Throated Vireo Chimney Swift-3 Pileated Woodpecker Great-Horned Owl-heard a pair calling from the area near the sycamore tree in the ravine along Dripping Rock Trail where a pair has nested the past several years. This past year's nest apparently failed as the pair was no longer seen/heard nor were pellets/whitewash observed in the area after the spring ice/snow storm. On a side note, apparently as a result of the same storm, the overall number of Eastern Bluebirds that nested/fledged in the 69 Bluebird boxes in the park were down this year around 75% from previous years. In the 10 boxes that I've monitored the past several years, 5 were fledged from one box the whole summer, whereas last year around 30 were hatched from several boxes. On another side note, we still have at least 3 resident Hummingbirds coming to our feeders at our house north of Highbanks and Powell Road, and Red-Breasted Nuthatches have been observed at the Highbanks Nature Center feeders. Directions to Highbanks are at _www.metroparks.net_ (http://www.metroparks.net) and are on the OOS web site. Rob Lowry Powell, Ohio ************************************** See what's new 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]