First a word about why I'm updating this local list here. I believe our county-level effort is relevant to other parts of Ohio. Franklin County is centrally located, and has few exotic habitats but a lot of local observers, so its bird occurrences serve well to represent those statewide. We have only a few records of chuck-will's-widows, and a few of Iceland gulls, but we regularly see pretty much all the species more widespread. I've noticed some good observers in the north say migration is later than usual this year, and others in the south say many species appeared earlier than usual. In some sense both are right I suppose, but our results of 37 warbler species *by 9 May*, and 225 species overall (pretty much lacking the winter/spring specialties of the Lake Erie shore), suggest that overall northbound migrants moved earlier statewide than in decades past. Credible reports of five OBRC review species in a bit more than four months suggest not a lot, but at least what is possible given an area in Ohio with a modest endowment of habitats but an excellent complement of birders. I started collecting local records with an estimated list of 278 species, and we're likely to exceed that by quite a few. Additional species we could more or less easily find this month include: n. bobwhite snowy/cattle egrets, little blue heron king rail avocet, m. godwit, turnstone, sanderling, w-rumped sandpiper, short-billed dowitcher king rail laughing/Franklin's gulls black/common tern barn owl yellow-bellied flycatcher Bell's vireo sedge wren Henslow's sparrow dickcissel I ask local folks to keep an eye open for these 22. Notice that most are species of wetlands, and most of the rest of open grasslands, and that only one--the flycatcher--remains likely to be found in May's popular wood-warbler habitats. Bird on, Bill Whan Columbus, Ohio ______________________________________________________________________ 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]