Mid-morning this morning I had a chance for a walk around the grounds of Darke County Parks' Shawnee Prairie Preserve<http://maps.google.com/maps?f=l&hl=en&geocode=&q=darke+county+parks&near=&sll=37.0625,-95.677068&sspn=48.77566,105.732422&ie=UTF8&ll=38.410558,-95.712891&spn=48.011214,105.732422&z=4&iwloc=A>. Located right outside Greenville, we've been waiting patiently for our warbler list to grow larger. For the past couple of weeks we've had a large number of Yellow-rumped Warblers throughout the woods, but no other warblers... but today, I was finally (!) was able to turn up some additional warblers! That being said, enjoy the list below...and then get outside and Go Birding! =) Happy Birding All! Location: DCP - Shawnee Prairie Preserve Observation date: 4/26/08 Notes: roughly 60 deg. - WINDY Number of species: 34 Canada Goose Mallard Green Heron Cooper's Hawk Killdeer Spotted Sandpiper 2 (fly-over) Mourning Dove Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Blue Jay <~ one pair was observed building a nest =) Carolina Chickadee House Wren 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Veery 1 American Robin Gray Catbird 1 European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler X Black-throated Green Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 1 Palm Warbler 1 Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow Swamp Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Sparrow This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) -- Robb Clifford - Naturalist - Darke County Parks www.darkecountyparks.org "We need another and a wiser, and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken a form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours, they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travail of the earth." -Outermost House by Henry Beston- ______________________________________________________________________ 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]