Well, I got a required day off, so I took FULL advantage of. I decided to make a day of it, and do something completely different for me...stay near the house and see how many individual species I could get...my own big day! So I limited myself to a somewhat circle of Lawrence Woods on the West. Killdeer to the North, and Big Island to the East. The only feeder would me mine, My goal was at first 50 birds seen and heard, but changed it to 70 birds after Lawrence Woods ;-D, and It would end at sundown! How many did I get...lets find out. 9:00-9:15 My house, list is small...but I wanted to get out of here! : 1. House Sparrow 2. House Finch 3. Pine Siskin....still! 9:30-arrival at Lawrence Woods, and it was the biggest chunk of the day...I deliberately took almost all day here to completely scour and had the most time because for one, nearly everything would be there, and for another...I wanted to get a "knock it off my list picture" of a Blue Winged Warbler...and the Elusive Nashville (I did ;-D link later) Here goes the list near to the order of seen/heard: 1. Meadowlark 2. Bobolink 3. Red Winged Black Bird 4. (First Surprise Of The Day for me [SOD]) Female N. HARRIER 5. Grasshopper Sparrow 6. Song Sparrow 7. Field Sparrow 8. Hermit Thrush 9. Red Bellied Woodpecker 10. American Redstart 11. Canada Warbler 12. Black Throated Blue Warbler 13. Ovenbird 14. Pewee 15. Ruby Throated Hummingbird 16. Great Crested Flycatcher 17. Warbling Vireo 18. Baltimore Oriole 19. Scarlet Tanager 20. Blue Winged Warbler 21. Indigo Bunting 22. Common Yellow-throat 23. Cerulean Warbler 24. Nuthatch 25. Blue Grossbeak (2nd SOD) 26. Nashville Warbler 27. Yellow Warbler 28. Black Throated Green 29. Cardinal 30. Canada Goose 31. Wood Thrush 32. Blue Grey Gnatcatcher 33. Red Eyed Vireo 34. Philadelphia Vireo 35. Robin 36. Parula 37. White Throated Sparrow 38. Eastern Towhee 39. Pileated Woodpecker 40. Downy Woodpecker 41. Blue Jay 42. Turkey Vulture 43. Bluebird 44. Goldfinch 45. Indigo Bunting 46. House Wren 47. Catbird Next was Killdeer Plains. I got there after 3:30 This was drive by birding at it's best. I went here to get the water birds, and Red Headed WP and anything else that pops up. I am omitting everything that was at Lawrence Woods (8 total) 1. Killdeer 2. Eagle 3. Am. Kestrel 4. Mockingbird 5. Eastern Kingbird (lots of these, almost every place I stopped) 6. Tree Swallow 7. Great Egret 8. Great Blue Heron ...no Stilt...darn! 9. Willow Flycatcher 10. Trumpeter Swans 11. Hooded Merganser 12. Cowbird 13. Brown Thrasher 14. N. Flickers 15. Barn Swallows 16. Mourning Dove 17. Rock Pigeon 18. Grackle 19. Starling 20. Red Headed Woodpecker 21. Swamp Sparrow 22. Red Tailed Hawk 23. Mallard 24. Coot I checked the list and saw that I was there or close to there, but I wanted to take it over the top, and blow it away...just in case I miscounted ;-D. So I kept on going to Big Island...It was now 8:30...so I hurried over to Big Island to the Deck on 95 and then to the end of the old ponds near the barn. As I had little light left I new I had to get what I could and go. So in the little bit of time I had it turned into full bore listening and as much as I could see with the binocs. Again, duplicates have been removed. I had 2 SODs here.: I tried for Sora...no dice. 1. Flyby Pintail Duck at the Deck(3rd SOD...aren't they supposed to be gone?) 2. Pied Billed Grebe 3. Prothonotary Warbler 4. Common Moorhen And @ 9:30 as the sun sets over Big Island, I start to head back to the car to hear the call of the tiny but mighty: 5. Marsh Wren (4th SOD...I would have not even known what it was if it weren't for the BWIAB and the Ottawa Drive Through Day :-D) Total for the day: 79, Yipee I beat my goal!!! Birds missing were the Wood Duck which was reported to me but I didn't see nor hear, Blue Winged Teal...I should have gone over to Herr Rd. and Shorebirds I could have gotten into the mid 80s if I had some of those. But am I gonna complain...nope! :-D Other birds mainly what sounded like flycatchers were heard but not positively IDed, so they were not included as well. Pics of the few that I actually took, are posted on my smug page: http://sjlarue.smugmug.com/Unsorted/OhioBirds/16108559_K6usy Have a great Weekend :-D Steve J. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]