Hi! Yesterday (Saturday) I birded out at the Darby Creek Greenway Trail, mostly in the Oak Savannah area. It was a gorgeous afternoon...I was there from about 2pm till 4pm. It started out really slow and quiet, hardly a single bird, and I didn't mind too much because the sun was so beautifully lighting up the landscape out there. But eventually I found the birds. Highlights included a small flock of ~15 American Pipits that flew in pretty close to the trail and were feeding and calling in the short grass and weeds quite tamely. Also, a flock of 10 Bluebirds was in calling one of the strips of woodland, and then flew off to the south. Best bird of the day was a female Northern Harrier hunting low over the grasslands as I drove away around 4pm. Here's my list: Red-tailed Hawk -1 Am. Kestrel -1 Northern Harrier -1 E. Bluebird -10 Am. Robin -1 Am. Pipit -15 Carolina Chickadee -2 White-breasted Nuthatch -1 Downy Woodpecker -1 Blue Jay -4 Am. Crow -5 Song Sparrow -6 (one of them singing!) Am. Tree Sparrow -14 Am. Goldfinch -3 Northern Cardinal -2 Earlier in the morning, I drove out to Darby Bend Lakes at Prairie Oaks MP to check out any waterfowl. Two of the lakes were birdless, but the large southernmost lake did hold one male Canvasback, 5 Ruddy Ducks, and a female Belted Kingfisher. Good birding, Nate Nye Hilliard, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]