I attended the fourth spring bird walk at Headlands Beach State Park today and the migration has picked up much better than last week. 11 of us found 72 species from 7:30-11:00 A.M. We birded all around Headlands Beach and parking lots and also birded around Shipman Pond and Headlands Road. Here is the full report: Headlands Beach State Park, Shipman Pond, and Headlands Road: Number of Species: 72 Canada Goose-20 Wood Duck-3 Mallard-8 Ruddy Duck-2 Pied-billed Grebe-2 Double-crested Cormorant-2 Great Blue Heron-1 Great Egret-1 Green Heron-1 Black-crowned Night Heron-3 Turkey Vulture-8 Bald Eagle-1 Cooper's Hawk-2 Killdeer-10 Spotted Sandpiper-6 Solitary Sandpiper-1 Bonaparte's Gull-3 Ring-billed Gull-25 Herring Gull-4 Rock Pigeon-2 Mourning Dove-4 Chimney Swift-20 Belted Kingfisher-1 Red-bellied Woodpecker-4 Downy Woodpecker-4 Northern Flicker-2 Eastern Phoebe-6 Eastern Kingbird-2 White-eyed Vireo-1 Warbling Vireo-8 Blue Jay-55 American Crow-6 Purple Martin-2 Tree Swallow-50 Northern Rough-winged Swallow-1 Barn Swallow-2 Black-capped Chickadee-1, heard Tufted Titmouse-2, heard House Wren-3 Ruby-crowned Kinglet-3 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-10 Hermit Thrush-3 Wood Thrush-1, heard American Robin-40 Gray Catbird-12 Brown Thrasher-4 European Starling-15 Blue-winged Warbler-1 Yellow Warbler-10 Chestnut-sided Warbler-1 Yellow-rumped Warbler-8 Black-throataed Green Warbler-2, heard Palm Warbler-8 Common Yellowthroat-1, heard Eastern Towhee-6 Chipping Sparrow-10 Field Sparrow-2 Song Sparrow-15 Swamp Sparrow-2 White-throated Sparrow-10 White-crowned Sparrow-2 Dark-eyed (slate-colored) Junco-2 Northern Cardinal-10 Red-winged Blackbird-150 Common Grackle-52 Brown-headed Cowbird-35 Orchard Oriole-1 Baltimore Oriole-2, heard House Finch-2 American Goldfinch-20 House Sparrow-3 Good Birding, Cole F. DiFabio Madison Ohio Lake County ______________________________________________________________________ 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]