I had a great time at the OOS annual meeting in Perrysburg last weekend. Despite no organized fields trips on this truncated meeting, I had a total of 106.5 species in 3 days of birding, including 22 species of warblers and two Life Birds. Saturday, I was able to bird with Jim McCormac, Bill Thomson III, Cheryl Harner, Peter King, and several other OOS members. We spent most of our time on the boardwalk at Magee Marsh, with a brief run to Metzger Marsh in the early afternoon. Bill got me a Life Philadelphia Vireo on the boardwalk, but I missed Jim's Orange-crowned Warbler. The rumored Connecticut never appeared, to my knowledge. Sunday morning, I hung out with Tom Bartlett and his crazy group of banders at Springfield Marsh. It is too bad that not many people availed themselves of this unique opportunity to see many of our migrants and residents in hand. I learned a lot, including getting a handle on the song of the Nashville Warbler. (Thanks, Tom!) I visited Kitty Todd Preserve in the late morning (no Karner Blue Butterflies but plenty of Wild Blue Lupine) and Oak Openings in the afternoon, where I got the Lark Sparrows and Red-headed Woodpeckers which were my primary goal. I whiffed on the Summer Tanager and wasn't lucky enough for Red Crossbills (three strikes on Lifers this weekend.) Monday, I went back to the boardwalk. Things were a little slow in the early morning (7:30-8:30am) but as the temps warmed up, the birding improved. I bagged a couple of birds I had missed on Sat, including the world's most cooperative Prothonotary Wabler (great photos!), and a sweet Lincoln's Sparrow. I had intended to leave at 1pm, but the bird guides reported that the Kirtland's Warbler had been seen behind the Sportman's Center about 90 minutes earlier. I arrived at the bird trail behind the center and only had to wait 15 minutes before the K-bird appeared. LIFER! The following birds were seen/heard at various spots around Magee Marsh on Sat and/or Mon: Double-crested Cormorant Great Blue Heron Great Egret Little Blue Heron (first Ohio sighting) Green Heron Canada Goose Wood Duck Blue-winged Teal Mallard Turkey Vulture Bald Eagle Killdeer Least Sandpiper Dunlin American Woodcock Ring-billed Gull Common Tern Mourning Dove Eastern Screech-owl Common Nighthawk (perched in tree by parking lot) Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Downy Woodpecker Eastern Wood-peewee willow/alder flycatcher - bird in hand, BSBO banding demo.  (This is my "1/2" species.) Least Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird Purple Martin Tree Swallow Blue Jay House Wren Ruby-crowned Kinglet Gray Catbird Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush American Robin European Starling Warbling Vireo *PHILADELPHIA VIREO Red-eyed Vireo Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Magnolia Warbler Cape May Warbler Black-throated Blue Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler *KIRTLAND'S WARBLER Palm Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Black-and-white Warbler American Redstart Prothonotary Warbler Ovenbird Northern Waterthrush Mourning Warbler Common Yellowthroat Wilson's Warbler Canada Warbler Scarlet Tanager Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Eastern Towhee (heard only) Chipping Sparrow Song Sparrow Lincoln Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird Common Grackle Baltimore Oriole At Metzger and near-by, I added: Pied-billed Grebe Mute Swan Common Moorhen Spotted Sandpiper Short-billed Dowitcher Ruddy Turnstone Sanderling Black Tern Bank Swallow Cliff Swallow Barn Swallow Kitty Todd/Oak Openings additions: Black-billed Cuckoo (heard only) Red-headed Woodpecker Red-bellied Woodpecker Northern Flicker Eastern Phoebe (heard only) American Crow Black-capped Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Field Sparrow (heard only) Lark Sparrow Brown-headed Cowbird Pine Siskin American Goldfinch at Springfield Marsh: Great-creasted Flycatcher (heard only) Nashville Warbler (heard only) Brown Thrasher (bird in hand) Wood Thrush (in hand) Tennessee Wabler (in hand) Swamp Sparrow (in hand) and along my driving routes: Rock Pigeon House Sparrow My thanks to the expert birders who allowed me to tag along with them on Sat morning, to Tom Barlett and crew for putting up with me and my camera on Sunday, and to Sam Woods and all the Tropical Birding guides who worked their butts off all weekend long. When they weren't leading tours, they were hanging around the west entrance to the boardwalk, doling out advice and news, and helping many people at the Center find the Kirtland's Warbler. And then, they go home and write it all up for this list. Great job, guys! ~Kathi http://katdocsworld.blogspot.com/ ______________________________________________________________________ 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]