This morning I led a walk at Highbanks Metro Park. The weather was pleasant and the route taken was around the Dripping Rock Trail and the Creek Side Trail. The vote for best bird of the morning was split between very cooperative Summer Tanagers, Yellow-breasted Chat and Worm-eating Warbler. Then there was one vote for the Jack-in-the Pulpits. A list of species include: Great Blue Heron Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Wood Duck Mallard Cooper's Hawk Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Mourning Dove Great Horned Owl Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Belted Kingfisher Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Willow Flycatcher Least Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Warbling Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Brown Creeper Carolina Wren House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Yellow Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Louisiana Waterthrush Common Yellowthroat Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed Cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole House Finch American Goldfinch House Sparrow Charlie Bombaci **************Wondering what's for Dinner Tonight? Get new twists on family favorites at AOL Food. (http://food.aol.com/dinner-tonight?NCID=aolfod00030000000001) ______________________________________________________________________ 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]