I had an incredible morning birding a trail along Steffi Rd across from the Hilliard Village condominiums. For those unfamiliar, this is a large wooded lot with adjoining grassy/weedy fields, various greenbelts, and a couple of ponds. I live just down the street, so I bird there all the time. This little place has yielded some fantastic sightings quite regularly, actually. Today the birds were just THICK from 6:30 to 8:30 am. I put together 67 species for the day in this location, right in the middle of Hilliard! I'll just skip to the highlights: Warblers (16 sp): Wilson's (1 male), Cape May, Redstart, Yellow, Yellowthroat, Black-thr. Green, Blackburnian, Parula, Yellow-rumped, Tennessee, Nashville, Magnolia, Ovenbird, Palm, Chestnut-sided, Black-and-white 3 wrens: House (many), Carolina (heard), Winter (1 lurking individual) Thrushes: Gray-cheeked (4), Swainson's (5), Veery (1), (and Robin, of course) 6 Sparrows: Song, Swamp (3), Lincoln's (1), White-throated (7), Chipping (2), Eastern Towhee (1) Also: Blue-headed and Red-eyed Vireos, Green Heron, Spotted Sandpiper, Brown Thrasher, American Woodcock (flushed it twice on accident, you can't see the things till they fly), Great-crested Flycatcher, Least Flycatcher (4), Scarlet Tanager, Baltimore Oriole, Rose-br. Grosbeak, Eastern Wood-pewee (heard for sure and possibly seen, my first for the year) Good birding, Nate Nye Hilliard, 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]