Lake Hope State Park & Zaleski State Forest are located 14 miles south of Nelsonville(Rte 33) off of Rte278 Last Friday & SaturdayApril(25th & 26th) members of Kirkland Bird Club, Jason Simonis,local artist, & I visited this area. Below is a list of a few of the birds we observed. Rifle Range/Rte 278 Warblers Yellow Ovenbird Yellow-throated Worm-eating Cape May C. Yellowthroat Blue-winged Black-throated Green Black-and-white Vireos White-eyed Yellow-throated Ruby-crowned Kinglet E Kingbird Hoooded Merganser E Phoebe Wood Duck-male & female Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Rte 278/ Large Marsh Warblers Blue-winged-2 Prairie-female W Turkey-female White-eyed Vireo Scarlet Tanager-2 Mallard-male Great Blue Heron Red-headed Woodpecker Bald Eagle Broad-winged Hawk Lake Hope Schoolhouse Warblers Yellow-breasted Chat Prairie C Yellowthroat-2 Yellow-3 Cooper's Hawk Barn Swallow-4 White-eyed Vireo Yellow-billed Cuckoo E Bluebird Brown Thrasher E Towhee Belted Kingfisher Gray Catbird Hunter's Camp Atkinson Ridge Rd. Warblers Pine-male & female Hooded-2 Ovenbird Worm-eating Blue-winged Black-throated Green Yellow-breasted Chat Ruby-throated Hummingbird Blue-headed Vireo E Raccoon Rd.-Raccoon Creek Warblers Ovenbird-7 Black-and white-2 Worm-eating Cerulean-4 N Parula-3 Louisianna Waterbrush-3 Prothonotary-male, female American Redstart Hooded-2 Blue-winged Black-throated Green Carolina Wren Wood Thrush Red-eyed Vireo Ruby-throated Hummingbird King Hollow Rd Warblers American Redstart-2 Black-and-white 3 Louisianna Waterthrush-2 Ovenbird-4 Worm-eating-4 Hooded-4 N Parula Red Camp Rd Warblers Yellow-throated Blue-winged Hooded Black-and-white Ovenbird Yellow-breasted Chat Red-shouldered Hawk Acadian Flycatcher Solitary Sandpiper Baltimore Oriole Bruce Simpson-Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Park ______________________________________________________________________ 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]