It was a chilly morning at Spring Valley, but it offered up an interesting variety of birds, as usual. Canada Goose Wood Duck Song Sparrow Northern Cardinal Brown-Headed Cowbird Yellow-Rumped Warbler (just one) American Goldfinch White-breasted Nuthatch Blue-Grey Gnatcatcher Black Vulture Turkey Vulture Hairy Woodpecker Pileated Woodpecker Red Bellied Woodpecker American Robin Mourning Dove Common Starling Red-winged Blackbird Great Blue Heron Carolina Chickadee Ruby-Crowned Kinglet (a few) Blue Jay Brown Thrasher Field Sparrow American Crow Tree Swallow Red-Shouldered Hawk Tufted Titmouse Rufous-sided Towhee Chipping Sparrow heard but not seen - Black-throated Green Warbler, Northern Parula, Prothonotary Warbler (in the swampy brushy area just north of the parking lot at the south end--not the usual Prothonotary spot). There was also an American Kestrel perching on power lines on 42 about a mile north of the turnoff for Spring Valley. ______________________________________________________________________ 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]