Yesterday was a lovely day to be out. In the morning, I joined the Dayton Audubon field trip to Englewood Metropark. Pie-biled grebe American bittern (North Park, briefly visible from the parking lot road) Great blue heron Turk Vulture Canada goose Wood duck Mallard Blue-winged teal Green-winged teal Hooded Merganser Cooper's hawk Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer Belted Kingfisher (North park) Red-bellied woodpecker Downy woodpecker Blue jay American crow Tree swallow Northern rough-winged swallow Carolina Chickadee White-breasted nuthatch Tufted titmouse Eastern bluebird American robin Starling Rufous-sided towhee Chipping sparrow Field sparrow Northern cardinal Red-winged blackbird Common grackle Brown-headed cowbird American goldfinch In the evening I went to Oakes Quarry Park in Fairborn to see the woodcock skydance Great blue heron Canada goose Mallard Killdeer American woodcock Mourning dove Carolina chickadee American robin Brown thrasher Field sparrow Savannah sparrow Dark-eyed junco Northern cardinal Red-winged blackbird ______________________________________________________________________ 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]