Hi, all. Yesterday my husband and I spent a few hours at the Wahkeena Nature Preserve. If you don't know it, it is located just south of Lancaster off of Route 33. If you are not a member of the Ohio Historical Society, it costs $5/car to enter. We think it is a lovely facility, and well worth it! It features the hilly terrain of the Hockings and has a number of ponds which are filled with singing frogs and toads, surrounded by birds, and one of which has an active beaver lodge. It is only a few miles from Clear Creek. Wood Duck (2) Turkey Vulture Red-tailed Hawk A juvenile broad-winged Hawk (we think, not a great look; not a red-tail) Mourning Doves Belted Kingfisher Yellow Bellied sapsucker (pair) Downies Hairies Pileated (heard, only) Least flycatcher Eastern Phoebe American Crow Carolina Chickadee Tufted Titmouse American Robin Winter Wren Yellow-Rumped Warbler (2) YELLOW-THROATED WARBLER (2) Northern Cardinal Eastern Towhee Song Sparrow House Sparrow Red-winged Blackbird And, as an added treat, a close up view of an injured captive red-tail and an injured captive screech owl that they are caring for. Kim -- Kim Gale Dolgin Professor of Psychology Ohio Wesleyan University Delaware OH 43015 [log in to unmask] 740.368.3809 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]