Monday I had the day off and decided to combine motorcycle riding with birding and ended up in God's country (on the map that is shown as Adams County). I birded one end of Rocky Fork Lake SP, Brush Creek SF, and The Wilderness Trail (part of Edge of Appalachia). I stopped at the Edge of Appalachia office I ran into Lucy, the better half of the better half of the Whan birding brothers. At the Wilderness Trail I found a Junco and thought I heard a Brown Creeper. At Rocky Fork the best birds were a Northern Harrier and a male Purple Finch, the first male of the species I have seen. At Brush Creek SF the best bird was Philadelphia Vireo. While resting on the trail I tried to imagine what it must have been like to be sitting there with 50,000 passenger pigeons eating the acorns overhead. I had a male Scarlet Tanager from the deck behind the Edge of Appalachia office. Overall I had 56 species of birds. Good Birding John Habig 261 Lantis Dr. Carlisle, OH 45005 [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]