The Darke County Birders held a premeeting walk on Tues. evening at Chestnut Street Marsh at Shawnee Prairie which is just at the west side of Greenville. The Darke County Parks have cut down a lot of the cottonwood trees that were starting to fill up the edges of the marsh and the marsh has mud flats visible from veiwing platforms. Birds sighted were: Ca nada geese x Mallards x Great Blue Heron 2 Great Egret 1 Green Heron 1 Cooper's Hawk 1 Killdeer x Solitary Sandpipers 6 Rock Pigeon 1 mo doves x downy 1 flicker 2 Bluejay x C. chickadee 1 Robins x Starlings x Cardinal 1 Grackle x House Finch 3 Goldfinch x house sparrows x ______________________________________________________________________ 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]