My sister is having surgery today but I had an hr to spare from 10:30AM- 11:30AM. My first time there this spring and I wasn't disappointed. At first I kept looking for wagtails and wheatear's having just returned from Morocco. Then I shook my head and started listening. Towhees calling and fox sparrows digging in the underbrush! Yes, spring is here. Not to mention, I still have 3 common redpolls coming to our feeders in Chardon. The following are the highlights of what I had for the short hour I was there: Tree creeper- 2 YB Sapsucker- 1 Song sparrows- many ( the most abundant ) Winter wrens- 3 Golden crown kinglet-1 Ruby crown kinglet- 1 Thrashers- 3 Fox sparrows- 7 ( I had heard they were back in good numbers ) Phoebes- 4 RBMergs- 14 flybys RSTowhees-3 Sally Isacco, Chardon ______________________________________________________________________ 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]