Yesterday I took advantage of the break in the weather and did a little birding around Columbus. I stopped at the Kinnear Road and North Star Road location for the Bell's Vireo around noon. The bird was not singing, but I walked a little ways up the disc golf course fairway from the bike path and observed a single Bell's Vireo skulking in and out of the bushes just north of the disc golf "hole" (basket? Target? I don't know what it's called). I didn't want to disturb the bird since the nest is active so I turned around after making a positive ID. While I was at the Bell's Vireo location, I also heard a Hooded Warbler singing from down the trail to the east in the more wooded section. I headed down to Pickerington Ponds next, not a whole lot going on down there. The water is pretty high in the marshes right now. There's three Great Blue Herons on nests on the flooded tree line in Wood Duck Marsh right now, and the Osprey was tending its nest as well. Other birds noted were Cedar Waxwings, Great Egrets (2), Red-winged Blackbirds, Common Yellowthroats, Field Sparrows, Northern Flickers, Song Sparrows, American Kestrel, and Red-tailed Hawks. On my way back home, I stopped to check out the Yellow-crowned Night Heron nest spot on Preston Road south of Broad Street in Columbus. As others have reported, only one nest is active, with two fledglings. The nest over the road is the empty nest. Good birding, Andy Sewell Columbus, Ohio _____ This mailbox protected from junk email by MailFrontier Desktop from MailFrontier, Inc. <http://info.mailfrontier.com> http://info.mailfrontier.com ______________________________________________________________________ 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]