I'm lousy on songs, but knew I was hearing something unfamiliar in my wood lot. First heard two days ago, this afternoon, just after the showers stopped I tracked down the singing male hooded warbler. Forty feet up in the trees. This isn't a mature woodland, but, over the last few years, as the scotch pines collapsed a fairly decent ground cover of ferns and other woodland plants has been established. The woods are a mix of beech, maple, cherry and the planted scotch pines, and probably still over 70 acres. If I get a nesting pair, that will be a first on this property. Another week till safe dates for OBBA. Inga Schmidt Chagrin River Road at the Geauga/Cuyahoga county line ______________________________________________________________________ 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]