I went to Villa Angela and Wildwood parks of the Cleveland Lakefront State Parks on the east side of Cleveland today. I ran into Mark Anderson around 11am and we birded till 3pm then he left and I stayed til 4pm. After noon it started to rain with a loud thunder and we almost left but we stayed til the rain stopped and saw more birds near the lake. Jeanne Hrenko was there earlier and left around 11:20am. She saw the Great Egret on Euclid Creek and also said the Blue-winged Warbler seemed to follow near her in the park. Here is a list of some of the birds Mark and I saw: Red-breasted Merganser 1 Common Loon 1 (front of Villa Angela) Green Heron 1 (Villa Angela in wet area in woods) Chimney Swift - numerous Least Flycatcher 1 Villa Angela "calling chebek" Unknown flycatcher 1 Villa Angela "calling whit" Eastern Kingbird 1 Villa Angela White-eyed Vireo 1 Villa Angela Warbling Vireos numerous Bank Swallows numerous House Wrens - at least 4 (3 Villa Angela, 1 Wildwood) Ruby-crowned Kinglets 3-4 Villa Angela Veery 1 (possibly 2) Villa Angela Swainson's Thrush 1 Wildwood Hermit Thrush 2 Villa Angela Wood Thrush 1 Wildwood Gray Catbirds numerous Brown Thrasher 1 Villa Angela Blue-winged Warbler 1 Villa Angela (seen many places) Nashville Warbler 1 Villa Angela Yellow Warbler - many Yellow-rumped Warbler 10+ Villa Angela Black-and-white Warbler 1 Villa Angela Ovenbird 2 (Villa Angela & Wildwood) Common Yellowthroat 3 Villa Angela Field Sparrow 1 Villa Angela Lincolns Sparrow 1 Villa Angela Swamp Sparrow 1 Villa Angela White-throated Sparrows 40+ Orchard Orioles 4 (3 adult males, 1-1st summer male)Villa Angela just after rain west of bathhouse I also had five White-crowned Sparrows in my backyard this morning and one Palm Warbler. Nancy Anderson Richmond Hts, OH http://www.flickr.com/photos/nancy_a ______________________________________________________________________ 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]