I found myself in Seville, Ohio (Medina Co.) yesterday, so I stopped at avian hotspot River Styx Park. It was late afternoon and fairly quiet, but I did manage to get a FOY veery, a pileated woodpecker, a half dozen or so blue gray gnatcatchers, and a winter wren (in brambles on west edge of pond). The trillium, violets and dutchman's breeches were abloom everywhere. In my western Summit County yard the brown thrasher, absent for 4-5 days after arriving last week, reappeared last evening and was singing high in the trees this morning. A FOY house wren appeared today, exactly on schedule and with his eye on the bluebird box. The bluebirds are AWOL and will find some competition from more than house sparrows when they return. Looking forward to what the south winds bring... Karen Gray Copley Twp./Summit Co. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]