Just returned from Utah and Nevada (yes, I climbed the mountain and saw the bird - Himalayan snowcock, that is!), and decided to try to up-grade some of the birds in one of my Atlas blocks (59C6CE, Utica 2) this morning. Feeding fledged young were: House wren Song sparrow White-breasted nuthatch Yellow warbler Scarlet tanager Rose-breasted grosbeak Baltimore oriole Blue jay Robin Cardinal Carrying food were: Downy woodpecker Gray catbird Cedar waxwing Tufted titmouse Visiting an obscured location repeatedly were: Male and female ruby-throated hummingbird Copulating: Chipping sparrow Other observations: Hairy woodpecker - a first for this block, I think Hooded warbler Acadian flycatcher Great-crested flycatcher Yellow-billed cuckoo Wood thrush Common yellowthroat Eastern towhee White-eyed vireo Northern flicker Killdeer Eastern phoebe In a muddy cornfield, or what's left of it after the recent monsoons: The first PEEPS of the year. Boy, I'm going to have to bone up on these guys - I'm not sure what I was seeing. Of the three seen, one had black legs, one looked like it might have been a semipalmated sandpiper, but I couldn't prove it. Didn't have my scope, and would have missed these three birds had I not been looking so carefully at the killdeer to determine if they had any downy young among them. Good birding, all! (It's not too late to work on Atlasing!) Margaret Bowman Licking Co., 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]