This morning's Early Morning Discovery Hike at Darke County Parks' Shawnee Prairie Preserve had a large turnout of species. In the 1.5 hours we hiked, we spotted/heard 39 spp! Good Times! Lots of migrants moving through! We had many ruby and golden crowned kinglets throughout the forest and many Yellow-bellied Sapsuckers! These guys were everywhere! We found a couple of Hermit Thrushes running along near the trail. There were also several spp displaying nesting behaviors. White-throated Sparrows and Juncos are still hanging around the feeders at the Nature Center, both singing occasionally. That's all for now! Enjoy the list and happy birding to all! (Full list below) -Robb Location: DCP - Shawnee Prairie Preserve Observation date: 4/15/08 Notes: LOTS of Sapsuckers!! Chilly to begin with (29) warming near the end of hike (44). Phoebe mending nest @ Loghouse. Robins gathering nesting material. Several kinglets in various locations. Number of species: 39 Canada Goose X Wood Duck X Mallard X Blue-winged Teal 5 Great Blue Heron 2 Turkey Vulture 1 Killdeer X Mourning Dove X Red-bellied Woodpecker X Yellow-bellied Sapsucker 5-8 Downy Woodpecker X Northern Flicker X Eastern Phoebe X Blue Jay X American Crow X Carolina Chickadee X White-breasted Nuthatch X Carolina Wren X Golden-crowned Kinglet X Ruby-crowned Kinglet X Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Eastern Bluebird 2 Hermit Thrush 2 American Robin X Northern Mockingbird 1 Brown Thrasher 1 European Starling X Yellow-rumped Warbler 1 Chipping Sparrow X Field Sparrow X Song Sparrow X White-throated Sparrow X Dark-eyed Junco X Northern Cardinal X Red-winged Blackbird X Common Grackle X Brown-headed Cowbird X American Goldfinch 1 House Sparrow X This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) If you happen to be near the Greenville area, swing into one of our many parks! You can find park locations on our website or search for us on Google Maps (under businesses). -- 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]