Sunday's Flora-Quest tally for Shawnee Forest and Adams County's Edge of Appalachia Preserve System were an exciting 96 species, not bad for a bunch of botanists! It will be interesting to compare those numbers with the OOS Conference to be held in Perrysburg Saturday, May 16. Our pattern has been to hold the annual conference in a location for two years, then seek new ground. Since the first two were held in Shawnee State Forest, we'll get a chance to compare our species tallied. The move to the Oak Openings sets the stage for viewing Lark Sparrows, Summer Tanagers, Blue Grosbeaks, Whip-poor-wills, Blue-headed Vireos and much more. And don't forget about all those warblers still working their way through Maumee Bay and Magee. Saturday's outstanding speakers are Kim Kaufman, Director of the Black Swamp Bird Observatory, and Jim Berry, President of the Roger Tory Peterson Institute. Jim would be happy to see any of your treasured Roger Tory Peterson artifacts, so be certain to bring them along. After Saturday evening's dinner, Jim McCormac will give a program titled Oak Openings: Desert of Diversity. We will provide a list of outstanding regional sites to visit on Sunday, and expert birder/naturalists will be at each of them. The conference should provide an excellent opportunity to become more familiar with the Oak Openings, and Kitty Todd during their special Blue Weekend. You'll not want to miss out- so get your registration in today, as time is running out: May 6th is nearly here! Our base of operations will be the spectacular Holiday Inn-French Quarter in Perrysburg. For the complete low-down and registration info, visit the OOS website at: http://www.ohiobirds.org/calendar/annual_meeting/meeting.php And now, the weekend list from Shawnee and the Edge: Wood Duck Ruffed Grouse Wild Turkey Great Blue Heron Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Broad-winged Hawk Red-tailed hawk Killdeer American Woodcock Mourning Dove Yellow-billed Cuckoo Barred Owl Whip-poor-will Chimney Swift Ruby-throated Hummingbird Red-bellied Woodpecker Downy Woodpecker Hairy Woodpecker Northern Flicker Pileated Woodpecker Acadian Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe Great Crested Flycatcher Eastern Kingbird White-eyed Vireo Yellow-throated Vireo Blue-headed Vireo Red-eyed vireo Blue Jay American Crow Purple Martin Tree Swallow Northern Rough-winged Swallow Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse White-breasted Nuthatch Carolina Wren House Wren Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Eastern Bluebird Gray-cheeked Thrush Swainson's Thrush Wood Thrush American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Blue-winged Warbler Tennessee Warbler Orange-crowned Warbler Northern Parula Yellow Warbler Chestnut-sided Warbler Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-throated Green Warbler Yellow-throated Warbler Pine Warbler Prairie Warbler Bay-breasted Warbler Blackpoll Warbler Cerulean Warbler Black-and-White Warbler American Redstart Worm-eating Warbler Ovenbird Louisiana Water-thrush Kentucky Warbler Common Yellowthroat Hooded Warbler Yellow-breasted Chat Summer Tanager Scarlet Tanager Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Henslow's Sparrow Song Sparrow White-throated Sparrow White-crowned Sparrow Northern Cardinal Rose-breasted Grosbeak Blue Grosbeak Indigo Bunting Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle Brown-headed cowbird Orchard Oriole Baltimore Oriole American Goldfinch House Sparrow Weedpicker's Journal: A flora and fliers blog www.flora-quest.com/blogpage.html ______________________________________________________________________ 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]