Today was great with lots of migrants. The morning started off with a thunderstorm. It finally cleared up around 9:00. Birds started moving early and there was a constant flow of birds all day. The best bird of the day was a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW that was feeding out in the backyard shortly after the rain stopped. It was not seen again The most amazing thing today were the PINE WARBLERS. I typically see one or maybe two a year. I cannot remember seeing more than one at a time in yard except when they bred here. Today I counted 19!!. They were travelling in small groups. At one point in time I had 11 birds in a single tree. The groups slowly moved through the yard going from conifer to conifer heading west. It was a challenge following them to get photos. Several times through the day I'd look out and see one hopping around the yard. I have never seen a movement of pine warblers like that before. I had a total of 9 species of warblers today including: blue-winged- 1, Nashville- 1, yellow- 1, yellow-rumped- 73, Cape May- 1, Palm- 8 (1 yellow and 7 western), pine 19, black and white 1, and Louisiana waterthrush- 1. Other songbirds included all of the swallows. I gave up trying to count them there were so many. Others were WHIP-POOR-WILL, chimney swift, blue-headed vireo, red-breasted nuthatch, rose-breasted grosbeak, chipping sparrow (33), and field sparrow (9). I still had single tree and fox sparrows. There was also a great hawk flight with over 1,000 broad-winged hawks, the most I have seen here. Hawk totals were: Turkey vulture- 117, osprey- 2, bald eagle- 2, sharp-shinned hawk- 11, Cooper's hawk- 1, red-tailed hawk- 3, red-shouldered hawk- 1, ROUGH-LEGGED HAWK- 1, BROAD-WINGED HAWK- 1,146 , MERLIN- 3, PEREGRINE FALCON- 1, American kestrel- 19. I had a total of 96 species today, all from my yard. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]