Lake Hope State Park & Zaleski State Forest are located 14 miles south of Nelsonville(Rte33) off of Rte 278. Doug Cook & I visited this area Wednesday(April 13th). Below is a list of some of the birds seen. King Hollow Rd-Maintainance Rd(No Vehicles) Clear Cut 7:50 Warblers Yellow-rumped--6+ Black-and-white--3 Hooded-1 Prairie-3 Common Yellowthroat-2 Blue-winged-1 Yellow-bellied Sapsucker-after hatching year female, female, male Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-4+ White-throated Sparrow-6 E Towhee-males-10+, 3 females Turkeys-5-gobbling Kinglets Golden-crowned-4 Ruby-crowned-2 Red-headed Woodpeckesr-10+ White-crowned Sparrow-singing Fox Sparrow Great Blue Heron-flying overhead Selected Cut 9:54 Warblers Prairie-1 Yellow-rumped-2 Blue-gray-gnatcatcher-2 Gray Catbird Cooper's Hawk Lake Hope Schoolhouse 11:00 Brown Thrasher Great Blue Heron Barn Swallow Hunter's Camp-Atkinson's Ridge Rd 11:40 Warblers Yellow-throated Pine-2 Yellow-rumped-2+ Black-throated Green Baptist Church Rd 12:20 Warblers Prairie-2 Black-throated Green Yellow-throated Jones Hollow Rd 13:05 Louisianna Waterthrush-2 E Phoebe Carolina Wren Baptist Church Rd/ Wheelabout Rd intersection 13:15 Warblers N Parula Pine Yellow-rumped Rte 278-Large Marsh 14:45 Hooded Merganser-male, 2 females American Coot-2 Bufflehead-female Great Egret Wood Duck-pair Rte 278-Small Marsh 14:50 Warblers Yellow-throated-3 Yellow-rumped Red-tailed Hawk Hope Furnace Trail 15:15 Warblers Yellow-throated-4 Louisianna Waterthrush-pair N Rough-winged Swallow-8+ Dark-eyed Juncos-2 Blue-gray Gnatcatcher-2 Brown Thrasher-pair Pileated woodpecker Ruby-crowned Kinglet Bruce Simpson-Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Park ______________________________________________________________________ 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]