Today around 9:30 am I hit the trails at Blacklick Woods Metro Park and was rewarded with some decent land migrants and some fun times with the warblers. I stuck to the middle of the woods and on Maple and Walter Tucker trails I had the following highlights: Chestnut-sided Warbler - 6 many first years Black-and-white Warbler - 1 American Redstart - 2 Magnolia Warbler - 2 Common Yellowthroat - 1 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher - 2 Common Nighthawk - 1 roosting high on tree limb along Walter Tucker connecting trail Wood Thrush - 1 Field Sparrow - 1 juv. Indigo Bunting - 1 Barred Owl - 1 Northern Flicker - 3 Hairy Woodpecker - 2 Downy Woodpecker - 4 Chimney Swift - 4 Broad-winged Hawk - 1 At the feeders we had several juv. E. Towhees which are interesting to see, as well as a good variety of other birds Good birding -Ben Warner www.metroparks.net for maps. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]