Hello! I just returned from a day long trip to Clear Creek Metro Park in northern Hocking County where I hiked and birded all of the park trails. In total, I saw and/or heard 62 species including 17 (maybe 18) warbler species. The warbler species seen/heard are as follows: Hooded Warbler (the most numerous warbler species) Ovenbird (second-most, including 3 or 4 fledglings) Cerulean Warbler-numerous Common Yellowthroat-numerous Black and White Warbler Yellow Warbler Yellow-Breasted Chat (2 or 3 in E. Creekside area, and 1 in Good Prairie) American Redstart Northern Parula Yellow-Throated Warbler Pine Warbler (Valley View Picnic Area) Prairie Warbler (several in area near junction of Chestnut and Cemetery Ridge trails) Kentucky Warbler (including parents w/food near nest by spur from Tulip Tree Trail to the Lake Trail) Worm-Eating Warbler Black-Throated Green Warbler Louisiana Waterthrush (1 in stream along Hemlock Trail) Blue-winged Warbler (heard 1 in Good Prairie) GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER (possible) As I was hiking up to the Thomas Cabin, I distinctly heard the alternate song of what I believe to be a GOLDEN-WINGED WARBLER on the left side of the trail in some shrubby habitat about waist-high. I have heard that song up close several times over the past couple of years when observing Golden-Wingeds at Highbanks and at Magee. It wasn't an alternate song of a Northern Parula and I don't think it was an alternate of a Blue-Winged Warbler. It stopped singing when I stopped but I could not visually verify the bird species. I played the "typical" Golden-Winged song and a bird started flying within the leaves of trees around me but it never came out in the open so that I could see it. There was no reaction when I played a Blue-Winged song. Just then, the winds picked up as a storm front moved into the area and I could not locate the bird after that. I'm not saying the bird was a Golden-Winged for sure but I hope others who visit the area try to locate it and verify the species. The area along the path to the Thomas Cabin where I heard the bird was about 64 paces (of my strides) from the beginning of the trail right where 2 or 3 logs that were sawed are lying together on the ground. I tried for a while to locate any Canada Warblers in areas along the Hemlock Trail where they have nested in past years but I came up empty. At one point on the Cemetery Ridge Trail, I had a Redstart, Worm-Eating Warbler, and Kentucky Warbler all in the same bush simultaneously looking at me. Other birds of note seen/heard included: ALDER FLYCATCHER-heard then saw 1 off of the E. Creekside trail near where the trail crosses the main road to the Cemetery Ridge Trail. Also heard another one singing behind the park office (Starner House). Veery-3 Wood Thrush-numerous Scarlet Tanager-numerous Red-Eyed Vireo-most numerous White-Eyed Vireo Yellow-Throated Vireo Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Wood Pee Wee Baltimore Oriole-heard 1 Eastern Phoebe Brown Thrasher Indigo Bunting Tree Swallow Cedar Waxwing Eastern Towhee-several including 2 sets of fledglings w/parents Pileated Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Blue-Gray Gnatcatcher Ruby-Throated Hummingbird-1 near Fern parking area Great-Crested Flycatcher-saw 1 flycatching Afterwards, since I was close by, I rushed down Rte. 33 ahead of the storm front to the Brass Ring Golf Course to try to see if any Mississippi Kites were out and about. I arrived at 7:05 PM and just as I was getting settled, the winds picked up ahead of the approaching storm front. A few minutes later as the winds blew harder, I saw the silhouette of a Mississippi Kite with its long tapered wings and squared tail cavorting in the wind. This lasted about 30 seconds but I couldn't get a better look other than the silhouette because of the dark lighting from the clouds rolling in. After a few more minutes, the Kite came back into view and flew fairly close to me such that I could see the plain pale gray body. As I was trying to look at other features, it tucked its wings in and banked away from me flying down behind the nearest tree line. Rain and lightning then came through and once the rain lightened to a sprinkle and the winds died down, I watched for a Kite for another 30 minutes without seeing one (until 8 PM). Directions to and information on Clear Creek can be found on the OOS web site and at _www.metroparks.net_ (http://www.metroparks.net) , whereas Brass Ring Golf Course is located off of Rte. 328 just south of Logan and west of Rte. 33. Rob Lowry Powell, Ohio **************Gas prices getting you down? Search AOL Autos for fuel-efficient used cars. 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