My boy and I spent all morning and afternoon at Holden today, and despite it not being the best time of year for bird sightings, had some nice finds. The best was a hooded warbler (first I've ever seen.) We also saw many indigo buntings, many bluebirds, house wrens, downy, hairy and red-bellied woodpeckers, flickers, a brown thrasher, a baltimore oriole, two female rose-breasted grosebeaks (no males, darn), a red-tailed hawk, as well as the usual assortment of chipping and song sparrows, goldfinches, red-winged blackbirds, cardinals, titmice, nuthatches, chickadees, crows, turkey vultures, etc... We also had the usual frustrating red-eyed vireo experience where we heard it singing incessantly but could not see it or even pinpoint where it was. Other than the hooded warbler, though, the most interesting bird we encountered was a singing bird I could not identify by song. I hope someone can help. We were in a large meadow, and it was singing from a large tree near the edge. It had a high pitched song, and the song was a repetition of the same note, going higher and higher and faster and faster until it stopped, whereupon it started again. Two of these birds were singing to each other but we could not find them to see what they were. It reminded me almost of a kettle boiling, and was a rather stunning song, in my opinion. Any ideas? ______________________________________________________________________ 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]