Howdy All, Sorry for the belated posting. I ended the day with 22 first of the year (FOY) in Ohio species. I started the day on Saturday, April 26, in Southwest Ohio between 9:30 and 10:00 am at Ellis Lake and nearby Gilmore Ponds. At Ellis Lake, I found one Black-bellied Plover (FOY), which flew and revealed the black axillaries/"arm pits," 18 Lesser Yellowlegs, 3 Solitary Sandpipers, one Spotted Sandpiper (FOY), one Least Sandpiper and 14 Pectoral Sandpipers and many Killdeer. It was chilly and damp. Along the bike/hike trail to the east I found 2 Cooper's Hawks, 1 Warbling Vireo (FOY), 1 Chimney Swift (FOY), 4 N. Rough-winged Swallows, 2 Barn Swallows, 1 Red-breasted Nuthatch, 1 House Wren, 1 Wood Thrush, 6 Gray Catbirds (FOY), 1 Blue-winged Warbler (FOY), 8 Yellow Warblers, 1 Yellow-throated Warbler, 2 Palm Warblers and 3 Indigo Buntings (FOY). At Gilmore Ponds, I found 1 Solitary Sandpiper, 1 Sora, 1 Chimney Swift, 4 White-eyed Vireos (FOY), 4 Warbling Vireos, 2 Red-eyed Vireos (FOY), 10 Tree Swallows, 6 N. Rough-winged Swallows, 3 Ruby-crowned Kinglets, 8 Gray Catbirds, 3 Brown Thrashers, 3 Nashville Warblers (FOY), 12 Yellow Warblers, 20 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 4 Palm Warblers, 1 Black & White Warbler, 2 Prothonatary Warblers, 1 Northern Waterthrush (FOY), 1 Yellow-breasted Chat (FOY), 1 Blue Grosbeak (FOY), male, 2 Baltimore Orioles (FOY) and 4 Orchard Orioles (FOY), 3 males and 1 first year male-yellow with black face patch. At Spring Valley WA, I added 1 Eastern Kingbird, 2 Yellow-throated Vireos (FOY), 4 White-eyed Vireos, 3 Warbling Vireos, 15 Yellow Warblers, 100 Yellow-rumped Warblers, 10 palm Warblers, 3 Prothonatary Warblers, 1 Baltimore Oriole, 3 Orchard Orioles, 1 Virginia Rail (FOY) and 7 Soras at the boardwalk. At the gravel pit north of the Rosanna-New Burlington Road, I found 6 Gadwall, 2 Northern Shovelers, males, 3 American Wigeon, 1 male & 2 females and one Redhead, male. As the sun started dropping more rapidly in the west, I made a few fast stops at Caesar Creek State Park. First I found one Great Crested Flycatcher (FOY) and another Yellow-throated Vireo in the woods at the Horseman's Camp Ground one the way from Spring Valley to Caesar Creek SP. At the watertower on the way to the beach off of Route 73, I found a Prairie Warbler (FOY) singing and 1 Northern Parula singing at the parking lot in the gorge below the dam. Again at Caesar Creek SP on the road on the way in to 50 Springs Picnic Area across from the first parking lot on the right, I found Hooded Warbler (FOY). Just before sunset, at Voice of America Park, I found 4 Bobolinks (FOY) and 1, maybe a second, Henslow's Sparrows (FOY) singing. Jay Jay G. Lehman Cincinnati, OH [log in to unmask] ______________________________________________________________________ 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]