Today I talked Linda into accompanying me to survey a block in Knox County for the OBBA II. The block basically had zilch for coverage during the first 5 years of the OBBA II project. I always enjoy a challenge and this block looked to be just that. Identified as Block 59B5CE, Homer, Miller Township, Knox County, its map on the Bing web site had it looking to be mostly farming county with some clumps of wooded areas, mostly along Sycamore Creek. The only things that stood out on the map were a cemetery and a small airport. I thought airport, what’s the chance of lucking into an Upland Sandpiper? There was no sandpiper but the block provided large populations of Bobolinks, a decent mixture of other grassland birds with 2 Henslow’s Sparrows topping the list. Once again a new block that seemed to have no great potential produced some nice discoveries. These blocks are too often overlooked as they appear to have minimal potential but on the flip side they are important to an accurate breeding bird atlas. Linda also got a dinner and my utmost appreciation for going with me on a hot day. Her favorite bird was the Common Yellowthroat that all but flew into us when I pished to see what I could pop up on Watson Road. Charlie Bombaci Species – Block 59B5CE Turkey Vulture Canada Goose Broad-winged Hawk American Kestrel Wild Turkey Killdeer Mourning Dove Northern Flicker Eastern Wood-Pewee Willow Flycatcher Eastern Phoebe White-eyed Vireo Red-eyed Vireo Blue Jay American Crow Horned Lark Barn Swallow Carolina Chickadee House Wren Eastern Bluebird American Robin Gray Catbird Northern Mockingbird Brown Thrasher European Starling Cedar Waxwing Yellow Warbler Common Yellowthroat Eastern Towhee Chipping Sparrow Field Sparrow Savannah Sparrow Grasshopper Sparrow Henslow’s Sparrow Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Indigo Bunting Bobolink Red-winged Blackbird Eastern Meadowlark Common Grackle American Goldfinch House Sparrow ______________________________________________________________________ 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]