Good Morning Fellow Birders! The last few days I have been hiking down into our hemlock gorge and around the property and happy to report the following birds: Northern Harrier (gray ghost hunting in our field) Wild Turkey (4) Black Vulture (kettle of 75+) Turkey Vulture (6) Red-shouldered Hawk (2) Red-tailed Hawk Killdeer (3) American Woodcock (++) Mourning Dove (8) Great Horned Owl Barred Owl Red-bellied Woodpecker (2) Downy Woodpecker (4) Hairy Woodpecker (3) Northern Flicker (2) Pileated Woodpecker (2) Eastern Phoebe (6+) Blue Jay (4+) American Crow (murder) Tree Swallow (5) Carolina Chickadee (6) Tufted Titmouse (8) White-breasted Nuthatch (6) Brown Creeper Carolina Wren (2) Winter Wren (3) Golden-crowned Kinglet (++) Eastern Bluebird (8) American Robin (++) Louisiana Waterthrush (2) Pine Warbler (4 at feeders) Yellow-rumped Warbler (++) Eastern Towhee (3) American Tree Sparrow Chipping Sparrow (4+) Field Sparrow (2) Song Sparrow (2) Dark-eyed Junco (6) Northern Cardinal (6+) Rose-breasted Grosbeak (female at feeder) Red-winged Blackbird (3) Eastern Meadowlark (3) Common Grackle (4+) Brown-headed Cowbird (6+) House Finch (5) American Goldfinch (++) House Sparrow (6) :( I am located in Hocking County, Laurel Township Other signs of spring: Little Brown Bat(s), Falcate Orangetipped, Cabbage Whites, Question Marks, Commas and wildflowers everywhere! Happy Birding Everyone! Jen Sauter President, Ohio Ornithological Society <www.ohiobirds.org> Ohio's Birding Network <www.ohiobirds.org> ______________________________________________________________________ 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]