Yesterday (Sunday April 26), Elizabeth Heineman called to report her first Baltimore oriole of the season. She also reported that she had seen an American Bittern in Terwilliger's Pond (near the OSU Stone Lab) on South Bass Island. She got some good pictures. We headed down to the Pond for some birdwatching and saw the following. American Bittern Green Heron Great Blue Heron American Egret Black-crowned Night Heron Wood Duck Belted Kingfisher Mallard Canada Goose Red-Headed Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Swainson's Thrush Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Blue-Winged Warbler White-Throated Sparrow Swamp Sparrow And of course everywhere Red-wing Blackbirds and Common Grackles At the South Bass Lighthouse, there were blue-gray gnatcatchers everywhere! There were about ten in one tree alone. There were about twenty Chipping Sparrows on the lawn and an Eastern Bluebird in the trees. White-Crowned Sparrow and a Gray Catbird showed up at my home on Sunday as well. I also saw a Green Darner dragonfly, Red Admiral Butterfly, and had seen a Mourning Cloak earlier this week. Lisa Brohl ______________________________________________________________________ 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]