Walked all the trails at Chestnut Ridge. Birds seen: Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Broad-winged Hawk Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Red-bellied Woodpecker Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Ruby-crowned Kinglet (11, 2 displaying red on head) Blue-gray Gnatcatcher (2) Eastern Bluebird (pair) American Robin Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow-rumped Warbler (4) Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow Northern Cardinal Red-winged Blackbird Brown-headed Cowbird American Goldfinch House Sparrow Pickerington Pond Additions: Pied-billed Grebe (1) Horned Grebe (pair) Great Blue Heron (counted 20+ nests at rookery) Mallard Blue-winged Teal (2M,1F) Northern Shoveler (2M,2F) Ring-necked Duck (1M,2F) Ruddy Duck (5-10, M/F) Red-tailed Hawk (2) American Coot (10+) Belted Kingfisher Barn Swallow (2 building nests under bridge) Got a good 2-minute+ look at a mink within 4-5 yards. ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]