Hi folks, A group of about a dozen birders joined me on a short walk this morning in the north part of Glen Helen. We had beautiful, sunny weather, which meant of course that all the birds positioned themselves directly between us and the sun. We came away with list of residents and migrants, including... Great blue heron Turkey vulture Canada goose Wood duck (a brilliant male in a tree) Broad winged hawk (a pair near a suspected nest site) Mourning dove Great horned owl (the young are out of the nest now, and two were seen in flight) Red bellied woodpecker Downy woodpecker Eastern phoebe Blue jay American crow Carolina chickadee Tufted titmouse White-breasted nuthatch Carolina wren Blue-gray gnatcatcher (Mystery thrush -- probably a hermit) American robin Yellow-rumped warbler Black-throated green warbler Northern parula Yellow-throated warbler Louisiana waterthrush Scarlet tanager Eastern towhee Northern cardinal Brown-headed cowbird American goldfinch Next Glen Helen bird walk will be next Sunday, May 4th, at 8:00 am. Make it Count for the Birds, our 24-hour birding extravaganza, will be the following Saturday, May 10th. Hope to see you out in the Glen! -Nick ------------------------- Nick Boutis Executive Director Glen Helen Ecology Institute 405 Corry St. Yellow Springs, OH 45387 Visit us online, at www.glenhelen.org ______________________________________________________________________ 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]