Yesterday I took a walk around Lazelle Woods. The Eastern Phoebe nestlings are getting big. They'll probable fledge any day now. Anyway I saw two Chestnut-Sided Warblers (male and female) engaged in what looked to me like some kind of courtship ritual. The male was strutting on a branch fanning his tail feathers while the female watched. I also saw a male/female pair of American Redstarts. Do either of these species breed in Central Ohio? Today after work I was going to go back to Lazelle Woods to check on the warblers but had a last minute change of plans. I went to Antrim Park instead and walked the trail along the Olentangy River behind the lake. The bank is undercut in several places and caving in. Within a couple of years there probably won't be a trail there. Anyway there wasn't much activity in the woods but flying over the river were numerous barn swallows with some northern rough-winged swallows in the mix. Two northern kingbirds were sitting on a snag in the river flying off it when they saw flying insects they thought looked appetizing. Across the river was another flycatcher that I couldn't quite make out because of the distance. The most numerous species, beleive it or not, was the Cedar Waxwing. Barn Swallows came in at a close second. Near the north rnd of the trail is a low head dam. Behind the dam the water is backed up and slow moving/ a perfect place for beavers. Two of them were right along the trail. I came within three or four feet of them. When the first one saw me he jumped into the water and slapped it with his tail. It was such a deafening noise that I nearly jumped out of my skin. A;so seen were Canada Geese, Mallards (one had ducklings), Red-Tailed Hawk, Turkey Vultures, American robins (one was sitting on her nest), House Wren, Carolina Wren, etc. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]