I needed to plan visits to two priority blocks for later this week, so on the way, I stopped by the block where I located the nesting great horned owls in March. What a great area! I had 59 species today, with two warblers I have never found in the four years I have been doing OBBA II work: worm-eating warbler and chestnut-sided warbler. But the bigger surprise was a northern harrier! Pretty exciting! Here's the complete list observed, all after church today (late morning/mid-day/afternoon: turkey vulture NORTHERN HARRIER red-shouldered hawk red-tailed hawk ring-necked pheasant killdeer mourning dove yellow-billed cuckoo chimney swift ruby-throated hummingbird red-bellied woodpecker downy woodpecker hairy woodpecker - feeding a fledgling! northern flicker eastern wood-pewee Acadian flycatcher willow flycatcher eastern phoebe eastern kingbird barn swallow cedar waxwing house wren gray catbird northern mockingbird brown thrasher eastern bluebird wood thrush American robin blue-gray gnatcatcher Carolina chickadee tufted titmouse blue jay American crow - fledged young European starling house sparrow white-eyed vireo yellow-throated vireo red-eyed vireo American goldfinch 1. blue-winged warbler 2. yellow warbler 3. chestnut-sided warbler - my first breeding CSW in Ohio 4. cerulean warbler 5. worm-eating warbler - my first breeding WEW in Ohio 6. Kentucky warbler 7. common yellowthroat 8. hooded warbler 9. yellow-breasted chat - had at least 6 males doing their crazy thing. scarlet tanager eastern towhee chipping sparrow field sparrow song sparrow northern cardinal indigo bunting red-winged blackbird eastern meadowlark common grackle brown-headed cowbird This brings my total species observed this year in Coshocton Co. to 108. What a fantastic place to bird, and I never realized it. Other OBBA II volunteers have reported northern harriers during the summer in Coshocton Co. I expected to find one perhaps nearer Woodbury WA, if at all, so imagine my delight and surprise to see one, very clearly, with diagnostic white rump, long wings and tail. I wasn't able to join the OOS group at Shawnee this weekend, but today was a nice consolation prize, to say the least. May you all be as fortunate as I, Margaret Bowman Region 60 Coordinator, OBBA II ______________________________________________________________________ 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]