Despite some threatening looking weather, it was still a pleasure to walk the trails at Sandy Ridge this a.m. It took some work to find the birds. The Swamp Sparrows were especially active and calling on their territories. Location: Sandy Ridge Reservation Observation date: 4/26/08 Number of species: 43 Canada Goose XXX Wood Duck 3 Mallard 30 Blue-winged Teal 6 Ruddy Duck 3 Great Blue Heron 4 Great Egret 8 Turkey Vulture 3 Bald Eagle 1 on the nest Cooper's Hawk 1 Red-tailed Hawk 1 Sandhill Crane 2 perhaps in nesting mode, time will tell Killdeer 3 Greater Yellowlegs 8 Ring-billed Gull 5 Mourning Dove 3 Red-headed Woodpecker 1 Red-bellied Woodpecker 3 Northern Flicker 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Warbling Vireo 2 Blue Jay 2 Tree Swallow XXX Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 3 American Robin 6 European Starling 5 Yellow Warbler 3 Yellow-rumped Warbler 3 Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 8 Ovenbird 1 Eastern Towhee 1 Chipping Sparrow 2 Field Sparrow 3 Song Sparrow 5 Swamp Sparrow 6 White-throated Sparrow 6 Northern Cardinal 4 Red-winged Blackbird 50 Eastern Meadowlark 1 Brown-headed Cowbird 6 Orchard Oriole 3 American Goldfinch 10 See you on the trails, Chris Pierce N. Olmsted OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]