Today there was some of the biggest songbird activity that I have seen all fall in my North Perry yard. There were huge numbers of warblers and sparrows seemed to be everywhere. The day started unusual. When I went into the yard to fill my feeders, there was a Virginia rail under the feeders. It's a first for the yard. It ended up running off into the woods not to be seen again. I did not have time to sit and watch the lake, but when I did there were numerous of flocks of warblers and other songbirds heading west. There were a lot in the yard also. There was a good variety with the best being orange-crowned, Connecticut and pine. In all I had eighteen species today. One one point in time this morning there were 500+ chimney swifts in the air around my house. From what I saw of the lake, few birds were moving. There were a few cormorants and scaup moving. John Pogacnik 4765 Lockwood Road Perry, OH 44081 (440) 259-2751 ______________________________________________________________________ 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]