Greetings Birders! Sunday at 2:30 p.m. I had a female Common Yellowthroat at Ravine Park off Wheeling Street in East Toledo north of the Lutheran Homes on the north side of the ravine. This area is less than a half mile south of Consaul Street (same street Tony Packo's is on that turns into Corduroy in Oregon)and north of Seaman Road. There is a dirt path (muddy) that makes a circle with a few picnic tables at the west end of the loop. I stopped my car along the south end of that path along the treeline. She was in a mixed flock of Tree Sparrows, Song Sparrows, Dark-eyed Juncos, Goldfinches, and Cardinals that were working the edge of the treeline on the ground in the taller grass and weeds. I added a zoomed in Google iPhone map on Rarebird.org of its location along the ravine and a link to a photo off the internet of what the bird looked like. It may be an immature male, but I don't remember seeing any grayish or darker color around the facial area, but the lighting wasn't the greatest either, as I saw the bird during a snow squall. The bird definitely stuck out amongst the sparrows and goldfinches. I noticed the size and color right away. The overall color was olive/dullish yellow with a whitish eye ring. Its throat and underparts were brighter yellow and it possessed the typical COYE behavior. The habitat was also right for COYE. If I remember correctly, a few Toledo area birders had a Common Yellowthroat a few years ago at Navarre Park in East Toledo during a Christmas Bird Count in December. I was less than fifteen feet from the bird in my car and was able to see it in three different spots as it moved around in the thickets. I got out of my car to grab my camera in my trunk and all the birds flushed - heading west toward Hecklinger Pond. I walked west along the ravine to relocate it, but the snow and wind was pretty heavy so I left and headed to Woodlawn Cemetery. On another note, I had 23 Common Redpolls, a group of of White-winged Crossbills, and a Northern Mockingbird at Woodlawn Cemetery on Saturday morning. There was a single Greater Scaup hanging out in the open waters of the canal at the State Boat Ramp between Anchor Point & Meinke Marina off Corduroy Road yesterday morning. There was also a female Hooded Merganser swimming with three female Common Mergansers in this same area. The field on the east side of Howard Road yielded a large flock of Lapland Longpurs just north of the dirt road. Out of all the Gadwall at Metzger yesterday, I spotted one American Wigeon along the south end of the marsh and a Northern Pintail flew over my car heading toward Howard Road as I was leaving. Good Birding! Sherrie Duris Vice President Toledo Naturalists' Association ______________________________________________________________________ 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]