Zaleski State Forest is located 14 miles south of Nelsonville(Rte 33) off of Rte 278. Jason Simonis & I went to Zaleski State Forest yesterday(April 5th). The wild flowers were ahead of schedule(Large-flowered Trilliums), but the hardwood trees had buds & small leaves, & the understory had Buckeye trees that were leafed out as well as the black raspberries. This is normal. The birds I saw were on schedule for this time of April. Below is a list of some of the birds seen & places we visited. King Hollow Rd-Maintenance Rd(No Vehicles) Clear Cut 9:00am Red-headed Woodpecker-adult Carolina Wren Sharp-shined Hawk White-eyed Vireo Grey Catbird White-throated Sparrow Shelter Woods N Flicker E Towhee-female Red-headed Woodpecker-last years young Blue-gray Gnatcatcher Yellow-rumped Warbler Black-and white Warbler Ruby-crowned Kinglet-singing State Forest Rd/Horse Camp Rd Warblers Pine Black-throated Green Baptist Church Rd 12:27pm Warblers Yellow-throated Pine Prairie Wheelabout Rd/State Forest Rd Pine Warbler Small Marsh/ Rte 278 Wood Duck-pair Great Egret Hooded Merganser-female Lake Hope Schoolhouse Brown Thrasher Red-tailed Hawk-adult Red-shouldered Hawk Huge Marsh-Wheelabout Rd Red-shouldered Hawk Wheelabout Rd Turkey-female Pileated Woodpecker Yellow-throated Warbler Will Tract Rd Wood Duck-pair Yellow-rumped warbler Rte 278/Irish Ridge Louisianna Waterthrush Lake Logan State Park is located off of Rte 33 C Loon-5 Great Blue Heron-2 A Coot-9 M Swan-pair nesting E Bluebird-2 N Mockingbird Great Egret Double-crested cormorant-11 Bruce Simpson- Naturalist at Blendon Woods Metro Parks in 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]