Greetings birders - A very productive birding trip into the field, with 15 other friends, turned up 76 species in Funk Bottoms, Killbuck Marsh Wildlife Area, and the Mount Hope area. Highlights include: - 6 spp of warblers including Prairie (Killbuck), Palm, Black-throated Green, and Nashville - 8 spp of shorebirds including numerous Pectorals, several Wilson's Snipe, Least, and both yellowlegs (Funk Bottoms WA, observation platform trail), Solitary, Spotted - 7 spp of sparrows including Field, Savannah, Swamp, White-crowned. - At least 8 Sandhill Cranes (Funk and Killbuck) - White-eyed and Warbling Vireos (Killbuck) - Numerous Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, a single Willow Flycatcher, two Eastern Kingbirds - Purple Martins thick in Mount Hope/Millersburg area - 3 very vocal and visible Ring-necked Pheasants in Mount Hope/Millersburg - 2 Bobolink males in Mount Hope Best of birding - Jen Jen Brumfield North Canton, OH [log in to unmask] _________________________________________________________________ Back to work after baby–how do you know when you’re ready? http://lifestyle.msn.com/familyandparenting/articleNW.aspx?cp-documentid=5797498&ocid=T067MSN40A0701A ______________________________________________________________________ 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]