I walked Denison University Biological Reserve in Granville, Licking County, this morning, and was delighted that the first of the Yellow-breasted Chats have returned, along with six other species of warbler and 3 kinds of vireo. Blue-gray Gnatcatchers were building a nest near the intersection of the White Tail and Crinoid trails. There were quite a few people hunting morels in the woods. I saw my first garter snake of the season. Also seen: Canada Goose -2 Turkey Vulture - many soaring overhead Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Hairy Woodpecker - 1 Pileated Woodpecker - 2 (together, near Catalpa/White Tail intersection) Tree Swallow - 10+ Northern Rough-winged Swallow -2 Blue Jay -2 American Crow -4 Carolina Chickadee -6 Tufted Titmouse -6 Carolina Wren -3 House Wren -2 (one had been atop a bird house in the swallow field on Friday evening; that box was topped by two tree swallows this morning) Blue-gray gnatcatcher - 6 Veery -1 Wood Thrush -1 American Robin 10+ Gray Catbird -3 Brown Thrasher -2 White-eyed Vireo -2 Yellow-throated Vireo -2 Red-eyed Vireo -1 Blue-winged Warbler -10+ Nashville Warbler 1 Northern Parula -2 Yellow Warbler -10+ Common Yellowthroat -6 Hooded Warbler -2 Yellow-breasted Chat -2 Northern Cardinal -20+ 2 Rose-breasted Grosbeak -2 Rufous-sided Towhee - 10+ Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Common Grackle - 2 (flyover) Brown-headed Cowbird - 10+ American Goldfinch -10+ House Sparrow The chimney swifts have returned to "downtown" Granville. Heather Nagy Pataskala ______________________________________________________________________ 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]