Did a quick bird tour at John Bryan State Park this morning. In addition to every chipping sparrow on the planet, we found the following: Pileated WP Downey WP Red Bellied WP Hairy WP White Eyed Vireo (a very tame and cooperative juvenile) Red Eyed Vireos (many) Brown Thrashers Red Breasted Nuthatch White Breasted Nuthatch Scarlet Tanagers Eastern Wood Peewees Eastern Phoebes Great Crested Flycatchers Cedar Waxwings Black and White Warbler Blue Winged Warbler Nashville Warbler Blackburnian Warbler Magnolia Warbler Chestnut Sided Warbler (including an interesting transitional plumaged individual with the typical green back seen in fall, but still retaining chestnut flank stripes) Blackpoll Warbler Pine Warbler Canada Warbler American Redstart Turkey Vultures in the roosting tree by lower picnic area outhouse + all the other usual suspects (chickadees, robins, etc...) I had the good fortune to bird this morning with Nick Boutis, Executive Director of the Glen Helen Ecology Institute, which is adjacent to John Bryan State Park and which is a large protected area with good wildlife. He indicated that the institute could use some more skilled birders for their Big Day bird count on May 10th. Those interested should mark their calendars. Lastly, the weather this morning was spectacular. What a way to start the holiday weekend! Good Birding Greg Spahr (Fairborn, OH) <BR><BR>**************************************<BR> Get a sneak peek of the all-new AOL at http://discover.aol.com/memed/aolcom30tour</HTML> ______________________________________________________________________ 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]