Today while watching from my window at the science center I was delighted with a GREAT EGRET flying north then east. This indeed is a bird now commonly reported at this time of the year, but is significant to me because it's campus bird #164! Other recent new campus birds have been LOUISIANA WATERTHRUSH, BARRED OWL, and EASTERN MEADOWLARK. At about 7:30pm today while submitting my end-of-the-day ebird checklist, I saw two CHIMNEY SWIFTS zip by heading northwest. Things are certainly kicking into high gear!! Good birding, Sean --- Sean Williams, '11 Undergraduate of Ornithology of Dr. Jed Burtt Ohio Wesleyan University HWCC 724 Delaware, OH 43015 617-470-4094 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]