I saw a pair of red headed woodpeckers using a hole in a tree in the new Kopf Family Reservation in Avon Lake. One bird was feeding the other from outside the nest hole. The female emerged and the pair copulated. Later I saw and heard them exchange pecking messages. This is one heck of a nice park if you haven't even been there. Today was my first time. Lots of mature trees and more may apples than I have ever seen anywhere around Cleveland. Last year I saw a territorial indigo bunting singing from a tree next to the high school here but I had never entered the park. I didn't even know it was there. A passerby told me there are barred owls nesting there so I will check on this soon. I think they must be the birds that nested in my neighborhood last year. I also heard Nashville and black throated green warblers. A warbling vireo or two also. This park is directly behind the library. Enter the trail from the library paring lot. The loon I worry is stranded is still on the pond along Walker Rd. I hope it survives. This seems like a heck of a long time for this bird to linger. The other day I posted about a yard first for me. A pair of pine siskins. I found one that had apparently been killed by a cat the very next day beneath one of my feeders. Argggh! Terry ______________________________________________________________________ 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]