At 3:00 today (6/19), I got a glimpse and a shot of the Cassin's Sparrow....then I did something STUPID...I was chimping the shots to see if they were sharp(google chimping if you need a definition...:-D,) and lost the sparrow...when am I going to learn! :-D Local traffic picked up, and a redtail hawk was in the area, so I went lock hunting for a while. Down in the wooded area of the locks, I heard two Parulas and a couple of other Warbler sounding birds. I was more interested in the damselflies than birding :-D I came back an hour or so later, and thought that I had seen it again...but it turned out to be a Vesper Sparrow...But hey, I didn't have that one either, so that is two lifers in one day. Grasshopper Sparrows were everywhere as well. I did hear and spot the Cassin's a little later singing on the telephone wires, but there was too much traffic to get anymore shots, so I left it for someone else and headed home. On the way, I checked out the Lockwood Dam area and got a couple of dragonflies that I hadn't gotten yet. A few field sparrows and flycatchers were flittering about as well. As I continued home, I was checking in with my wife on the phone and suddenly this orange streak swooped down at my car and then veered off...a Baltimore Oriole! For the second time this year, I thought that someone was throwing an orange at me! :-D Well that's it. Pics are here: http://sjlarue.smugmug.com/Unsorted/OhioBirds/16108559_K6usy Have a Happy Father's Day weekend! 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]