Spend around two hours birding Tinkers Creek State Nature Preserve today, most of which was spent on the north side of the parking lot. Warblers: Nashville (perhaps more numerous than all birds outside the Myrtles) Yellow Rumped Yellow Pine Palm Others: Cooper's Hawks Turkey Vultures blue headed vireos (numerous) blue-gray gnatcatchers (several) Great Crested Flycatchers 3 Chickadees Tufted titmice brown creepers (one of which toted an insect or an ant 3/4 of the way up a tree -- is this important?) ruby crowned kinglets tree swallows killdeer Baltimore Orioles Rose breasted Grosbeaks Northern Flickers Downy woodpeckers Red bellied woodpeckers Robins - 2 on nests Hermit thrush Swanson's thrush Northern Mockingbirds 2 - one on nest ! (Do have an extreme Bigfoot photo. Will go back on a sunny day and attempt something better. Very clear views through my bins.) gray catbirds blue jays cardinals red-winged blackbirds song sparrows Mourning Doves Canada Geese Renee ______________________________________________________________________ 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]