I started the day at Rowe Arboretum near my home in eastern Cincinnati. Brown Thrasher singing and easily visible Yellow-throated Warbler 1, singing and quite visible Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 1 Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Pine Siskin 2 sets of birds apparently paired flying around. For one pair, one of the birds following the other one was displaying by spreading its wings and tail showing the yellow stripe in the wings and yellow in the tail. The four birds landed in a deciduous tree. One bird hovered above a sitting bird, appearing to try to copulate but didn't. Some siskins singing again this morning like last Sunday. California Woods: Yellow-throated Warbler 2 singing Northern Parula 2 singing Looked for the Louisiana Waterthrush without success. Voice of America Park, Mason: Wison's Snipe 2 Savannah Sparrow 5 Vesper Sparrow 2, along the blacktop entry road off of Cox Road, near the dead end Allen Road Retention Basin, off Union Boulevard off of I75: Blue-winged Teal 3 Barn Swallow 2 Caesar Creek SP, beach off of Route 73 Caspian Tern 2 at about 3:30 pm Caesar Creek SP, Gorge below dam Louisiana Waterthrush 1 at about 4:00 pm. Cross the river to the gravel trail and continue along the east side of the river to the bridge. Spring Valley WA Northern Rough-winged Swallow 30+ mixed in with many Tree Swallows, looking from the parking lot by the dam Barn Swallow 2 Osprey 1 On the bike trail north of the trail with cable that connects to SPWA. Ruby-crowned Kinglet 1 Yellow-throated Warbler 1 Pine Warbler 1 Rusty Blackbird 2 m, 1 f At the boardwalk at about 6:00 pm. Blue-winged Teal 13 Wood Duck 2 (m + f) Sora 3 heard after imitating the rising whistled call Swamp Sparrow 4, several 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]