APRIL 2011 UPDATE: On 30 April we reached 201 Franklin County species, with five more thus far in May, for a 2011 total of 206 (in 121 days). We are doing very well. With 34 warbler species in the bag, now we especially need birds of wetlands, fields and grasslands, habitats getting scarcer as we pave the county. Many of the unrecorded species are less likely until fall, but new species we can reasonably expect to see in May remain: bobwhite, least bittern, snowy and cattle egrets, little blue heron, maybe king rail, golden and semipalmated plovers, avocet, willet, whimbrel, marbled godwit, semipalmated sandpiper, white-rumped sandpiper, short-billed dowitcher (other shorebirds more likely in fall), laughing/Franklin’s gulls, black/common terns, yellow-billed cuckoo (what’s up?), olive-sided and the two remaining Empidonax flycatchers, Bell’s and Philadelphia vireos, sedge and marsh wrens, gray-cheeked thrush, Connecticut & mourning warblers, Lincoln’s sparrow, dickcissel, and bobolink. Note that observers are unlikely to encounter many of these species in the haunts of wood-warblers, so get out and get some sun...if you can find any. Total #s-- Jan: 102, Feb: 6, Mar: 19, Apr: 74, May 5 An almost up-to-date list (it grows daily) is posted on the Columbus Audubon site at http://www.columbusaudubon.org/production/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=675&Itemid=216 Thanks to all who've helped, Bill Whan Columbus ______________________________________________________________________ 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]