Thanks to the guided tours of some excellent and generous birders, I'm slowly learning the birding areas of my new North end neighborhood like Blendon Woods, Sharon Woods and Hoover. Since Sharon Woods is closest I took advantage of an unexpected free time from 10:30 to about 11:15 this morning to continue familiarizing myself with a nice little woods walk that's identified only as a connector trail. Take the first right from the park entrance, then turn into the first parking lot on the right. The trail beginning can be seen from the far end of that parking lot. When I first arrived, "not a creature was stirring," but then I heard chickadees and what Tommy Thomson told me years ago proved true, they were indeed tour guides for the warblers--not exactly a wave but a ripple: first a female or immature male redstart, then a bay-breasted and a yellow rump--both of which flew down and began foraging on the path with a couple of titmice!--and then, skulking in the nearby underbrush just like it's supposed to, a MOURNING WARBLER, a life lister for me at last! Other nice birds included the blue-headed vireo that was hanging out with the warblers and a couple of scarlet tanagers, one female and one presumably immature male since it was greenish yellow with bars on its black wings. No sign of the pair of sapsuckers that were frolicking noisily in the same spot Saturday evening. Good birding! Pam Unger P.S. If you're looking for red-breasted nuthatches, the Greenlawn Cemetery feeders at Thurber Pond are still your best spot! Eternity is not something that begins after you are dead. It is going on all the time. We are in it now. --Charlotte Perkins Gilman ____________________________________________________________________________________ Don't let your dream ride pass you by. Make it a reality with Yahoo! Autos. http://autos.yahoo.com/index.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]