I stopped by Emily Traphagan Preserve this morning. The barred owls have fledged. I saw two of them. There may have been more. I also saw a red- bellied woodpecker nestling sticking its head out of a tree cavity waiting for its parents to come back with food. At Kiwanis cedar waxwings were abundant. One pair of them was building a nest. A female American redstart was taking a bath in one of the springs not more than five feet from where I was standing on the boardwalk. Farther down the trail, near where it turns to go up to the parking lot, a daddy downy woodpecker put food into the mouth of one of his screaming fledglings. The male prothonotary warblers are still singing but I still haven't seen a female there yet. At Lazelle Woods, the red-tailed hawk chicks are getting big. Any day now they should fledge. The complete list follows. L=Lazelle Woods, K=Kiwanis, T=Traphagan Double-Crested Cormorant (K) Great Blue Heron (T, K) Canada Goose (K) Mallard (T, K) Wood Duck (K) Red-Tailed Hawk (L) Cooper's Hawk (T) Turkey Vulture (T, K, L) Mourning Dove (L) Barred Owl (adults and fledlings)(T) Chimney Swift (K, T, L) Belted Kingfisher (K) Northern Flicker (T, K) Red-Bellied Woodpecker (T, K) Downy Woodpecker (adults and fledlings)(K) Eastern Wood Pewee (T, K) Acadian Flycatcher (T) Great-Crested Flycatcher (T, K) Eastern Kingbird (K) Blue Jay (T, K, L) American Crow (L) Tree Swallow (T, K, L) Northern Rough-Winged Swallow (K) Carolina Chickadee (K) White-Breasted Nuthatch (K) Brown Creeper (K) House Wren (T, K) Carolina Wren (K) American Robin (T, K, L) Eastern Bluebird (T) Gray Catbird (T, K, L) European Starling (K, L) Cedar Waxwing (K) American Redstart (K) Black-Throated Green Warbler (K) Chestnut-Sided Warbler (K) Prothonotary Warbler (K) Northern Cardinal (T, K, L) Song Sparrow (T, K) Baltimore Oriole (K) Brown-Headed Cowbird (K) Common Grackle (T, K, L) Red-Winged Blackbird (T, K, L) American Goldfinch (T, K) House Finch (T) House Sparrow (T,L) Al LaSala Columbus, OH ______________________________________________________________________ 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]