Hello! I just returned from a morning of birding the first part of the pet trail at Highbanks. I arrived around 9 AM and was immediately greeted in the area just beyond the water fountain by a "swarm" of warblers and other birds. I continued on along the muddy path to the north through a wooded section to where it crosses over a small culverted stream where I encountered a second "swarm". There were so many birds that there were times when I could not decide which ones to try to look at through the binoculars. The following is a list of the birds that I was able to observe and hear: Blackpoll Warbler Northern Parula-3 Chestnut-Sided Warbler-numerous Yellow-Rumped Warbler-numerous Yellow Warbler Hooded Warbler Black-Throated Green Warbler-a few Black-Throated Blue Warbler Cape May Warbler Tennessee Warbler-a few Bay-Breasted Warbler Blackburnian Warbler-a few Common Yellowthroat-a few singing on territory Ovenbird-2 Nashville Warbler-several Palm Warbler Magnolia Warbler-2 Wood Thrush-heard 3 or 4 Swainson's Thrush Veery Rose-Breasted Grosbeak-several with a pair at the Nature Center feeders Indigo Bunting-2 Least Flycatcher-2 Solitary Vireo Warbling Vireo Red-Eyed Vireo-a few Summer Tanager Baltimore Oriole House Wren-several Scarlet Tanager Brown Thrasher White-Crowned Sparrow-near the Nature Center Directions to Highbanks are on the OOS web site or can be accessed at _www.metroparks.net_ (http://www.metroparks.net) . Rob Lowry Powell, Ohio **************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]