I was at BSA Camp Seven Ranges and was treated to a really special evening Chat! At about 10:30 PM Friday night, a couple of birds started vocalizing around our campsite. At 11:30 when I turned in, they were still at it. It continued on onto the wee hours of Saturday, and in fact, was still going on at 05:30 AM Saturday, just above our tents. As the morning sun hit the tree tops, a Yellow-breasted Chat was still carrying on the same songs which serenaded (annoyed) us all evening. A walk around camp brought out at least 3 others, all within about a couple of acres of each other. Two of them were most accommodating, and I was able to get great looks. The rest of the day had some good birds as well, with the Carolina Chickadee being a nice Ohio first. Location: Camp Seven Ranges Carroll Cty Observation date: 6/06/08-6/7/08 Number of species: 47 Canada Goose X Great Blue Heron 1 Green Heron 4 Turkey Vulture 3 Cooper's Hawk 1 Mourning Dove 4 Black-billed Cuckoo 1 Common Nighthawk 1 Chimney Swift 6 Ruby-throated Hummingbird 4 Red-bellied Woodpecker 1 Downy Woodpecker 1 Eastern Wood-Pewee 1 Acadian Flycatcher 1 Willow Flycatcher 1 Great Crested Flycatcher 1 White-eyed Vireo 1 Yellow-throated Vireo 1 Red-eyed Vireo 2 Blue Jay 2 American Crow 5 Barn Swallow 3 Carolina Chickadee 1 Black-capped Chickadee 4 House Wren 3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher 2 Wood Thrush 1 American Robin 8 Gray Catbird 4 Cedar Waxwing X Blue-winged Warbler 2 Yellow Warbler 4 Common Yellowthroat 2 Hooded Warbler 1 Yellow-breasted Chat 4 Scarlet Tanager 2 Eastern Towhee 5 Chipping Sparrow 3 Field Sparrow 4 Song Sparrow 4 Northern Cardinal 4 Indigo Bunting 3 Red-winged Blackbird 4 Common Grackle 6 Brown-headed Cowbird 8 Baltimore Oriole 2 American Goldfinch 6 This report was generated automatically by eBird v2(http://ebird.org) See you on the trails, Chris Pierce N. Olmsted, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]